page_title: Saraguro people
section_title: Contemporary Saraguros
hierarchical_section_title: Saraguro people / Contemporary Saraguros
caption_attribution_description: English: Saraguro girl taking a selfie with the Wikis during a Kapak Raymi celebration on December 2017. Photo taken by V. S.
context_page_description: The Saraguro is a people of the Kichwa nation most of whom live in Saraguro Canton in the Loja Province of Ecuador. Although most now speak Spanish, Runashimi or Kichwa, a Quechua dialect, is also spoken and language revitalization efforts are being implemented. Likewise, the Saraguro have retained much of their land, customs and traditional dress. According to the INEC's 2010 population census, the total population of Saraguro canton is 30,183, but that total includes both the Indigenous and non-Indigenous people living in Saraguro.
  The Saraguro may be the descendants of people re-settled from distant regions in the Inca Empire in the 15th and early 16th century.
context_section_description: Most of the Saraguros live at intermediate elevations in the Andes between 1,800 metres (5,900 ft) and 2,800 metres (9,200 ft). Traditionally they are farmers and livestock herders.  A shortage of land in their homeland has led many to migrate eastward into the Zamora-Chinchipe Province of Ecuador. Others have migrated to Europe and the United States. Many contemporary Saraguros are doctors, architects, engineers, 
  musicians, photographers, construction workers, artisans, farmers, entrepreneurs, politicians, teachers, lawyers, cooks, activists. And others continue to do agro-pastoralist activities while holding professional careers or combine more than one occupation. While having a distinctive identity, they are engaged in the consummer society and technology as much as most the Ecuadorian society is. Issues such as teenage pregnancy, environmental degradation, deforestation, discrimination, racism, discontinuation of traditions are also present across the Saraguro territory.
caption: Saraguro girl taking a  selfie with the Wikis during a Kapak Raymi celebration in December  2017
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