Claim: Ecuador has a population of Afro-Ecuadorian people.

Afro-Ecuadorians are an ethnic group in Ecuador who are descendants of formerly enslaved Africans brought by the Spanish during their conquest of Ecuador from the Incas . They make up from 4 % to 6 % of Ecuador 's population .   Ecuador has a population of about 1,120,000 descendants from African people . The Afro-Ecuadorian culture is found primarily in the country 's northwest coastal region . The majority of the Afro-Ecuadorian population -LRB- 70 % -RRB- are to be found in the province of Esmeraldas and the Valle del Chota in the Imbabura Province . They can be also found in Quito and Guayaquil . Their best known cultural influence known outside of Ecuador is a distinctive kind of marimba music .