Editing Music of Latin America (section)

===Ecuador===
{{Main|Music of Ecuador|Andean music}}
[[File:Mirella_Cesa_en_2016.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Mirella Cesa]]]]
Traditional Ecuadorian music can be classified as mestizo, Indian and Afro-Ecuadorian music. Mestizo music evolved from the interrelation between Spanish and Indian music. It has rhythms such as ''pasacalles'', ''pasillos'', ''albazos'' and ''sanjuanitos'', and is usually played by stringed instruments. There are also regional variations: coastal styles, such as ''vals'' (similar to [[Vals Peruano (Waltz)]]) and ''montubio'' music (from the coastal hill country).

Indian music in Ecuador is determined in varying degrees by the influence of ''quichua'' culture. Within it are ''sanjuanitos'' (different from the ''mestizo sanjuanito''), ''capishkas'', ''danzantes'' and ''yaravis''. Non-''quichua'' indigenous music ranges from the [[Tsáchila]] music of [[Santo Domingo]] (influenced by the neighboring Afro-marimba) to the Amazonian music of groups such as the [[Shuar people|Shuar]].

Black Ecuadorian music can be classified into two main forms. The first type is black music from the coastal Esmeraldas province, and is characterized by the marimba. The second variety is black music from the Chota Valley in the northern Sierra (primarily known as [[Bomba (Ecuador)|Bomba del Chota]]), characterized by a more-pronounced mestizo and Indian influence than ''marimba esmeraldeña''. Most of these musical styles are also played by wind ensembles of varying sizes at popular festivals around the country. Like other Latin American countries, Ecuadorian music includes local exponents of international styles: from opera, salsa and rock to cumbia, thrash metal and jazz.