When Jacinto Eduardo Andrade Arteaga was born on 1 May 1921, in Manabí, Ecuador, his father, Jacinto Viterbo Andrade Arteaga, was 51 and his mother, Maura Arteaga Vera, was 29. He married Enedina Arteaga Alcívar on 15 August 1946, in Chone, Chone, Manabí, Ecuador. He died on 18 September 1965, in Chone, Manabí, Ecuador, at the age of 44.