History of the Jews in Ecuador
The history of the Jews in Ecuador dates back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when Sephardic Jews began arriving from Spain and Portugal as a result of the Spanish Inquisition. Ecuadorian Jews are members of a small Jewish community in the territory of today's Ecuador, and they form one of the smallest Jewish communities in South America.
| Total population | |
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| 290 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Quito and Guayaquil | |
| Languages | |
| Spanish, Yiddish, Ladino and Hebrew | |
| Religion | |
| Judaism |
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