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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Cotopaxi Highland Quichua of Ecuador

The Cotopaxi Highland Quichua of Ecuador, numbering approximately 109,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as a people of Ecuador They are an Indigenous people, with Quechua / Quichua as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Quechua people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion. They primarily speak Chimborazo Highland Quichua.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Quichua, Cotopaxi Highland

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Ecuador
People Cluster: Quechua
Primary Language(s): Chimborazo Highland Quichua (qug)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 109,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG043132

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Chimborazo Highland Quichua
Language Family: Quechuan

90%
%
Quichua, Chimborazo Highland Speakers

Media Resources in Chimborazo Highland Quichua:

Films:
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JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Chimborazo Highland Quichua:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2003 Bible Society of Ecuador✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Chimborazo Highland Quichua bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Cotopaxi 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 Cotopaxi 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 Cotopaxi Highland Quichua of Ecuador

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.
readEphesians 2:4-5

Pray that those who have not yet received new life will be made alive together with Christ, saved by grace and raised up with Him to newness of life.

Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.
readPsalm 119:97

Pray that the lost will have access to God's Word in their language and treasure it deeply, meditating on God's promises and precepts.

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
readHebrews 10:23

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will cling tightly to the hope they have in God to faithfully keep His promises.

Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.”
readPsalm 96:10

Pray for God to put in the hearts of believers to go to the lost and testify about the Lord who reigns.

Quichua, Cotopaxi Highland Across Countries (ROP3 - 116228) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▲Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Cotopaxi Highland QuichuaPG043132Cotopaxi Highland QuichuaEcuador109,000No Longer UnreachedChimborazo Highland QuichuaEthnoreligion

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