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The Calderon Highland Quichua of Ecuador

The Calderon Highland Quichua of Ecuador, numbering approximately 52,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Indigenous Kichwa-speaking people of the northern Ecuadorian highlands whose identity emerged from the blending of pre-Columbian Andean populations under the spread of Highland Quichua language and culture in the Sierra region. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Calderón Highland Quichua is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Quichua, Calderon Highland

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Ecuador
People Cluster: Quechua
Primary Language(s): Calderón Highland Quichua (qud)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 52,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG017460
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Calderón Highland Quichua
Language Family: Quechuan

75%
%
Quichua, Calderón Highland Speakers

Media Resources in Calderón Highland Quichua:

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Bible Resources in Calderón Highland Quichua:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Calderon Highland Quichua are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Calderon Highland Quichua:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Calderon Highland Quichua of Ecuador

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
read1 John 4:10

Pray for those without the hope of Christ to understand the depth of God's love and the sacrifice He made for them.

Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you. Heal the sick in it and say to them, "the kingdom of God has come near to you."
readLuke 10:8-9

Pray that the lost will receive messengers of the gospel with joy, turn from their sins, and be healed.

Sanctify them in the truth, your word is truth.
readJohn 17:17

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will experience freedom from sin as God sanctifies them in the truth of His Word.

And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.
readMark 5:20

Pray that God will bring people who appear beyond hope to faith in Jesus and that they will then go and tell others of the marvelous things He has done.

Quichua, Calderon Highland Across Countries (ROP3 - 101854) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountry ▲PopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Calderon Highland QuichuaPG017460Calderon Highland QuichuaEcuador52,500No Longer UnreachedCalderón Highland QuichuaEthnoreligion

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