San Miguel de Urcuquí Canton, or Urkuki, is a

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Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...

, located in the

Imbabura Province Imbabura () is a Provinces of Ecuador, province located in the Andes of northern Ecuador. The capital is Ibarra, Ecuador, Ibarra. The people of the province speak Spanish, and a large portion of the population also speak the Imbaburan Kichwa va ...

. Its seat is the town of

Urcuquí Urcuquí, also known as San Miguel de Urcuquí is a town located in the north of Ecuador, it is the seat of the San Miguel de Urcuquí Canton of the Imbabura Province. This town limits to the North with the parish of Salinas in the Ibarra can ...

. Its population in the 2001 census was 14,381 and was 15,671 in the 2010 census. The area of the canton is . San Miguel de Urcuquí is located in the

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of northern Ecuador. The town and parish of Urcuqui had a population of 4,499 in 2000 and 5,205 in 2010 and has an elevation of above sea level. The town is located about in straight line distance northwest of the city of Ibarra, the capital of Imbabura province.

Demographics

Ethnic groups as of the

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of 2010: *

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83.1% *

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9.3% *

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5.5% *

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1.9% *

Montubio Montubio is the term used to describe the Mestizos in Ecuador, mestizo people of the countryside of coastal Ecuador. The Montubio make up 7.4% of the country's population and were recognized as a distinct ethnicity by the government in the sprin ...

0.2% *Other 0.1%

References

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