When Jacinto Viterbo Andrade Arteaga was born about 1870, in Chone, Manabí, Ecuador, his father, Jacinto Andrade Mesa, was 16 and his mother, Teresa Arteaga Velasquez, was 14. He married Maura Arteaga Vera on 15 January 1909, in Chone, Manabí, Ecuador. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 22 December 1948, in his hometown, at the age of 78, and was buried in Chone, Manabí, Ecuador.