 The Guayaquil seafront was built in 1920, taking the lungomare of some Italian cities as a model | |
| Total population | |
| c. 19,000 (by birth)[1] c. 56,000 (by ancestry)[2] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Guayaquil[3] | |
| Languages | |
| Ecuadorian Spanish · Italian and Italian dialects | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholic | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Italians, Italian Americans, Italian Argentines, Italian Bolivians, Italian Brazilians, Italian Canadians, Italian Chileans, Italian Colombians, Italian Costa Ricans, Italian Cubans, Italian Dominicans, Italian Guatemalans, Italian Haitians, Italian Hondurans, Italian Mexicans, Italian Panamanians, Italian Paraguayans, Italian Peruvians, Italian Puerto Ricans, Italian Salvadorans, Italian Uruguayans, Italian Venezuelans |
Italian Ecuadorians (Italian: italo-ecuadoriani; Spanish: ítalo-ecuatorianos) are Ecuadorian-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Ecuador during the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in Ecuador.
Italian immigration to Ecuador has developed above all in the last two centuries. Ecuador is a country in which there are Italian communities, which – like other countries in Latin America – have spread throughout the national territory. The Italians who immigrated to Ecuador are predominantly Ligurian.[4]
- ^ "Rapporto Italiani nel Mondo" (PDF) (in Italian). p. 24-25. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ^ "Le comunità italiane in Cile ed Ecuador — Lombardi nel Mondo" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 16 April 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
- ^ "Trayectorias biográficas de los italianos en el Ecuador de fines del siglo XIX y primera mitad del siglo XX". Retrieved 21 March 2023.
- ^ "De Liguria al Ecuador". Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2012.