Horacio Larraín Barros’ Demografía y Asentamientos Indígenas En La Sierra Norte Del Ecuador En El Siglo XVI: Estudio Etnohistórico de Las Fuentes Tempranas, 1525-1600 (1980) is an ethnohistory of the northern Andean región in the Incan and Spanish colonial periods which sheds light on the impact of Incan attempts to reorganize life in what became colonial Quito and how those incomplete attempts influenced Spain’s imperial project. While the demographic is now out of date, Larraín’s work remains influential for its review of Ecuadorian secondary sources and early Spanish chronicles about the region.
By N. H. Gill
Quito, 2020
Southern Affairs 