Sanjuanito is a danceable music used in the festivities of the mestizo and indigenous cultures.

In the small Chota Valley of the province of Imbabura exist a small community of Africans among the province's predominantly mestizo population.

Today you can find a small community of Africans in the Catamayo valley of the predominantly mestizo population of Loja.

Many of the indigenous peoples were absorbed into the mestizo population, but the remaining 700,000 currently represent over 85 distinct cultures.

After abolition, a national ideology of mestizaje encouraged the mixing of the indigenous and white people into a single mestizo ethnic identity http isla.igc.org SpecialRpts SR2murillo.html_ .

According to the 2005 census by the DANE the population of Colombia was composed of these racial groups 49 Mestizo (European and Amerindian).

In the Highland Andes where a predominantely Mestizo, white and Amerindian population exist, the African presence is almost non existent except for a small community in the province of Imbabura called Chota Valley.

Although foreign workers in these categories are not allowed to sponsor the residency for their spouses or children, until recently, women in these categories could extend their residency permits to include children born in Lebanon.

As a general rule, small elements of zambos and mulattoes coexisted among the overwhelming mestizo population of coastal Ecuador throughout its history as gold miners in Loja, Zaruma, and Zamora and as shipbuilders and plantation workers around the city of Guayaquil.