What ethnicity are the villagers descended from in The Country of the Blind

Ecuador - in northwestern South America

Explanation:

The Country of the Blind" is a short story written by an English writer known as Herbert George Wells. The story talks about a certain mountaineer named Nuñez, who is blind in one eye and was said to have moved to a village in the Andes Mountain, Ecuador - in northwestern South America.

The story has it that there was an earthquake in the area, fifteen generations before, that cut off the entire villagers from civilization.