#encanto analysis

[jacarandaaaas]

I find it interesting how a lot of the time when people refer to the argument scene at the climax of the movie, they say “mirabel finally stands up for herself”. but it’s not actually the first time she does! it’s the most crucial time and the only one that isn’t interrupted by something else happening but mirabel does stand up for herself multiple times!

for example when luisa starts losing her gift alma immediatly asks mirabel “what did you do? what did you say to her?”, to which mirabel immediately retaliates “nothing!” it’s short and brushed over but it happens!

then yet again after the disastrous dinner pepa asks “what did you do!?” and mirabel literally yells out “IM NOT DOING ANYTHING!” she isn’t timid about her response she’s blunt and she’s immediate. mirabel can and does stand up for herself in the movie it’s just overlooked!

not to mention the breakfast scene we see already she is quite defiant! but people always act like mirabel was just a timid doormat for the whole movie and never actually stands up for herself when she does!! everytime isa opened her mouth mirabel always had a retaliation! but mirabels defiant nature is a large part to why she is the one who brings about change to the family and the entire encanto!

[yellowcry]

Now this might be a hot take but...

I don't think Julieta was Señorita Perfecta)/the golden child like Isabela nor insanely overworked like Luisa

Just look at how shocked she is. She had no idea of the fact that her older daughters suffered too. But, if she had the same trauma, I feel Julieta would at least suspect that something was wrong. But she doesn't.

[encantobrainrot365]

Ok so, I can’t believe I missed this but, look.

I’ve always loved this moment in the song. The way she’s basically projecting herself onto a wall of roses 🌹 The way the wall changes color from pink 🌷 to blue 🪻as she sends a giant wave of flower petals throughout the room.

But did you catch that?

The way the room changes color. The way her projection of herself no longer appears to us as the delicate flower 🌺🌸, or pretty pink princess 👸🏾 her Abuela wants.

But a more bold and beautiful shade of purple and blue 💙💠💜 with a hint of yellowish-orange 💛🏵️🧡 and some green 🌴🌵 thrown in there too.

It’s foreshadowing people! The reclamation of her identity! Look at her, now!

Look at the way she is no longer dressed to reflect her Abuela’s influence or her need to please her, but takes a tip from Mirabel and is instead, dressed to reflect the rest of the family she loves so much.

There’s the *bright* violet blue color of the dress that reflects her parents and sisters. The yellows and bright oranges that symbolize joy and her Tia Pepa’s side of the family. Then, there’s the bright green color that symbolizes truth and her Tio Bruno, whose prophecy finally came true.

Now compare that to the way she used to dress! In pale blue, lavender and pink pastels.

The way she almost looks muted and repressed compared to the rest of her family’s far brighter color palettes 🎨

I also think it’s a call back to Sleeping Beauty, and Flora and Merry Weather’s iconic disagreement on whether to make Aurora’s dress pink or blue. Makes sense since Sleeping Beauty came out in the late 50s. The same time period that Encanto takes place in. I’m sure Isabela can relate.

[ominousvibez]

a little thing about the madrigal family and their gifts

something i really find fascinating about encanto is the different gifts each madrigal sibling receives and how it correlates to this greater idea of "protection" or "defense".

as in defense/protection against outside intruders.

like, look at the triplets. julieta, pepa, and bruno.

julieta is able to heal with the food she makes, which can help her family and her community recover from injuries from attackers faster. pepa can control the weather with her emotions-- weather that could be used to wash away or slow down any intruders. bruno literally can predict the future.

and then the grandkids, too!

isabela's control of plants and luisa's strength stand out as the most outwardly powerful. isabela can summon cacti or trees to harm any intruders, and luisa's brute strength can overwhelm anyone who tries to get after her.

dolores and camilo are a little more subtle in theirs, but they're still pretty good for a defense. dolores, similar to how bruno could predict them coming before they arrive, can hear any intruders approaching before they get there, so she can provide early warning to her family and community. camilo is a shapeshifter, he can shapeshift into other, stronger people, or even into the intruders to become a spy amongst them.

mirabel, obviously, doesn't have a gift. she's more representative of a change against the idea of the gifts being used mostly for defensive purposes. perhaps casita realizes that they're strong enough to protect themselves now, or maybe abuelita unconsciously asked for her children to get these specific gifts to protect her family and then felt like there was enough following camilo. either way, mirabel is the shift away from it.

antonio's gift of animal communication can still be used for this "warfare" or defense. he can tell his animal posse to attack people for him, or they can even become spies for him, overhearing secrets and plans from their attackers and reporting back to him, but his gift feels like the first one meant to be just for himself.

granted, we do not get the backstories of the other madrigal children that deep-- how they were as little kids. maybe julieta always loved to cook, and isabela loved flowers and plants, and camilo was always playing pranks, and their personalities subtly manifested their gifts in them.

but i still think it's really interesting how the gifts of the madrigal family can be used to defend and protect their family and community from outside attackers. after all, that's the reason that abuelita first left her home-- they were attacked by outsiders. it makes sense that the gifts could reflect a response to that fear.

[toon-tales]

Hi! Does Luisa have Agustin, Julieta’s complexion? Or is she a mix of both? And do her and Isabela both have Julieta’s body type like Mirabel?

Hiya! Ok, so, i believe Luisa has neither Julieta nor Agustin's complexion...? I think she has Abuela's, actually

Her face is just more like young Alma, with a hint of Julieta with the bangs and lips and tied hair, other than that, her face shape is more like Alma's

Also, yeah. I pretty much think they all have the same body type

Isabela's is more like it but Luisa's body is similar to them, too

So, uh... hope you like it, Anon!

[my-little-safe-corner]

Good and Evil Magic in Wish and Disney

In Wish, Star, a pure representation of good magic, has gold color. This is also the color of star power in each organism's heart:

And of course, the color of the magic wands Star gives Asha:

The gold color symbolizes good magic in other Disney movies, too, such as in the Fairies franchise with Queen Clarion and the miracle candle from Encanto:

In the first wish ceremony, Magnifico also uses golden magic:

But, wait! There's another color involved here:

And, indeed, Star is also associated with dark pink:

And so is the magic in Encanto:

However, after Magnifico uses the dark magic book, his magic becomes green / emerald, which is the classical color of evil magic in Disney, for example:

Even in Lion King, which has no magic (maybe except for Rafiki's rituals), the good lions are golden, while Scar is associated with green:

In Encanto, there's no evil magic, but Bruno, whom everyone is afraid of, is represented by this color:

And notice how Mirabel, who has green glasses, intentionally decorates her clothes and mochilla with gold and pink, trying as best as she can to belong and not be seen as an outsider:

Therefore, the second wish ceremony looks different:

And when Simon's wish is granted, even his heart becomes green, corrupted to the core:

[imaginationfanstar]

I’ve come up with a theory about the warm side of the Madrigal family. While the movie focuses on the blue side it’s clear that everyone has some major anxiety issues. And if it’s not explicit it’s implied.

Although weather control, super hearing and shapeshifting don’t appear to match up with one another, the anxieties the recipients faced are still closely correlated. Each of their powers cause the users to be stressed, overwhelmed, untethered and under appreciated.

Pepa’s weather is inconvenient and always on display. No matter what she does it’s impossible to hide. People expect her to only express certain emotions when it suits them. Then get upset when what she’s feeling becomes inconvenient for them. In an effort to please everyone while being told her emotions don’t matter, it’s easy for Pepa to frequently succumb to her anxiety.

Meanwhile, Dolores is privy to a well of secrets and information with very little idea how to process it all. In addition she is constantly overstimulated. Girl must be extremely stressed out. Not only that but because her power isn’t as showy as others she is often left on the sidelines to simply relay information, rarely getting to express what she wants, how she feels, or even what she thinks.

Then we have Camilo. There is so much to potentially unpack here. While on the surface Camilo seems fine, we all know, no one in this family is fine. Like his mother and sister, with a gift like his it’s easy to feel like who he is doesn’t matter. With people constantly expecting him to fill a role of some kind rather than just be himself, it would be easy to become overwhelmed and lose himself at times. I can imagine him forgetting that he’s still in a shift or even what he looks like. Perhaps he’s not comfortable in his own skin but doesn’t have the freedom to explore what would make him feel more like himself. Hiding how he truly feels under a smile, a joke, or a sarcastic comment. Which is why I head canon Camilo as queer with they/them he/him pronouns.

This family has a lot more in common than it would initially appear and it would be great if they all had the chance to address that. It would surely bring them all closer together.

[naoko-world]

I guess he never thought of that! Not something you would think about when telling a story like that.

Honestly, very personally I think it wouldn't probably have happened. Or in a very subtle way.

Because in the early days they just got saved by the candle, there is so much to do and a community to stabilize. Even 5 years after, when the triplets got their gifts. Trying to take or use the candle would threatened the stability they're trying to reach. There is too much to risk when they just escaped death. Not talking about fear to be in danger again. It's not impossible though, but improbable.

But some people could have tried some visibly harmless things like, for example, trying to marry Alma. Or making their children be friends with the triplets.

But Alma would have never accepted to remarry because she's way too in love with Pedro.

As for being friends with the triplets, I can imagine Pepa, Bruno and Julieta being circled by children whose parents asked them to befriend them. The best outcome would have been to marry into the family through the triplets.

Really, in the early days nothing really aggressive. Maybe after 10 or 20 years, when there will be a feeling of granted about their situation, but not in the early days when they would only be traumatized villagers who just escaped death.

Well, it's my opinion at least!

[astrobi]

What Else Can I Do? (Encanto) Analysis

So I've been scouring the internet and I haven't found anyone who noticed this but during the song 'What Else Can I Do?', there's a really poignant bit of cienmatography.

Basically as Isabela starts singing, Mirabel counters with trying to get a hug, but Isabela's not looking.

And she doesn't look at her until the halfway point of the song.

Whilst Isabela's making all these amazing things, all Mirabel thinks about is the prophecy from Bruno so she doesn't really care about the song. She's just being dragged along by Isabela's powers.

It's only after her line 'This is fine!' that she starts to warm up to the idea of Isabela learning something new about herself.

Only then does Isabela look at her. When she starts climbing up the palm tree to join her. At that moment, everything changes:

Isabela sings to Mirabel for the first time ('careful they're carnivorous')

Isabela has now opened up to Mirabel fully ('I'm so sick of pretty, I want something true, don't you?')

She turns away (I always interpreted that as fear of rejection, something she displays a lot throughout the movie)

Then Mirabel finally answers her, and explains her point of view.

As they rise, they don't break eye contact, and from then on they are both in sync musically and with their bodies.

Mirabel stops fumbling and being dragged around and starts participating in Isabela's fun, and Isabela includes her sister.

What's really important is that Mirabel trusts Isabela now. She would have never let herself fly on her sister's vines like she does before this revelation.

Musically, Mirabel is realising that her place in this song is not to answer Isabela's musical phrases, or to redirect the conversation away from Isabela, but she becomes her backing vocalist.

Mirabel has always been in the background in her family, but because Isabela is her opposite (the Golden Child to her Scapegoat) she's always harboured fairly open resentment towards her. Like she won't tell the little kids in the first number, but she'll say it basically every other time.

And Mirabel doesn't even realise she's making herself the centre of attention during Mariano's proposal. But that attention shift is the same way that they fight. It's a power struggle.

People don't realise that this is huge character development for Mirabel. She's ok with being the background character here, she know's it's Isabela's moment. She's not spiteful or sad or jealous in any way here.

Tl;dr - the moment where Mirabel starts climbing the palm tree in the song is super significant and basically changes their entire dynamic.

Also: it's really interesting that Isabela's programming runs so deep that she never steps in to correct Abuela or defend Mirabel when they get caught.

[selcaby]

When do you think Encanto takes place?

Based on tweets from Jared Bush I tend to assume the main story takes place in 1950, but the whole place has been cut off from the outside world since the miracle 50 years earlier. Their fashion and technology are from around the turn of the century.

I assume Bruno’s gift is the only reason he knows what telenovelas are. He’s never watched an actual TV. His football rat theatre scene is of a specific goal that Colombia scored against Germany in the 1990 World Cup.

The tune Agustín plays on the piano is “En Barranquilla Me Quedo” and was first released in 1988. I think either Agustín learned it from Bruno or it’s artistic licence. They were trying to cram as many Colombian things as possible into the film, even if some were anachronistic.

In one of my fics I posited a magical shop that sells goods that they can’t manufacture locally, such as books. (I mean, they could have their own printing press, but they would be short on texts to print.) So now if I spot something that seems too modern I just assume it comes from there.

[sluttyskullowner]

cartoon movies's deeper meaning explained by an autistic depressed transgender masc PT. 1

Disney's Encanto (Written by Castro Smith and Bush); Beside from the obvious answer here, generational trauma, this story also shows how the inside of a family and it's history does not reflect how the family is like, alma for example or abuela-- she lost her husband which is the reason Encanto was born, the candle that gave them this town is grief, and how accepting your grief and not denying it gets you further in life then ignoring it. Isabela, Mirabel and Luisa on the other hand deal with trying to meet everyone else's expectations, Luisa feels like she needs to be strong physically and emotionally, Mirabel feels like if she can't have a power she needs to make up for that, Isabela deals with trying to satisfy other people and deny her own personal morals so others can be happy where they are instead of her. I personally think especially Mirabel is a good example of this entire spectrum, let me explain; Mirabel knows and thinks she has no gift ans she is put that because of this, Her family meanwhile-- At least everyone else who has a gift knows and honors their gift and use that to define themselves, though people like Felix and Augustus are very big exceptions because they married into the family, but Mirabel still has no gift. I strongly belief that this movie is trying to show not only has trauma falls upon younger generations but how self-worth is important. Remember, Mirabel thinks she has nothing, no gift, that she is not special not unique, which I think it's important that they realize that people feel this way because it's something everyone can understand, children and adults, even know-- I consider myself very mature but I can preform and sing this song, with and without emotion and even without emotions my eyes start watering from the pain and lack of self recognition.

{ List of movies I'm most likely going to do next if at all for this series } - Coco (2017) - Luca (2021) - Big Hero 6 (2016) - Mulan (1998) - Cinderella (1950) - Snow White (1937) - Moana (2016) - Hercules (1997) - Turning Red (2022) - Princess and the frog (2009) - Aladdin (1992) - The Lion King (1994) - Inside Out (2016) - Etc..

[jacarandaaaas]

a little underappreciated detail about mirabel is how it’s likely she has an interest in horse riding! the only basis I have for this is a small scene in the movie but I love the implication of this being one of her hobbies!

we see how bruno approaches mirabel & alma on horseback but he’s uncoordinated and struggling (poor guy lmao) whilst this could be due to being in the walls for a decade I also think it’s because he doesn’t actually know much about horse riding as he’s never had an interest in it!

now compare this to mirabel who seems to know EXACTLY what she’s doing, she’s cool calm and collected and it almost comes naturally to her! I believe this is because she actually has an interest in horse riding! we already know she has many hobbies so I don’t think it’s far fetched to speculate this is another one!

also take in mind she is riding bare back here! notice how Bruno appears nervous (and is the whole ride back to the encanto) but alma is smiling she’s fully confident I believe this is because mirabels done this many times before!

also the way she does this jump so effortlessly!? and riding bareback is way harder too! Usually only experienced riders do this! so I think the fact mirabel 1. Isnt nervous at all about this and 2. alma isn’t nervous at all implies she’s experienced in some way

she just seems like she really knows what she’s doing and the horse doesn’t seem uncomfortable either! so yeah this is my mirabel is a horse rider theory!

[yellowcry]

So if I'm on it... I feel the fandom has (or had in early days when there were many people, it's only a handful who still in) a huge problem with Luisa's hyper-feminisation.

Yes, I'm talking about the poytrayal of Luisa as somebody obsessed with pink, delicate things. At the same time being unable to hurt a fly.

Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with the idea that Luisa would love lace, cotton and everything what is associated with (traditional) feminity. She can do it all she wants, that's womderful. The problem is that sometimes people act like this is the only way Luisa can express her gentle and feminine side by acting ONLY the way stereotypical feminization wants. And turn it to the most extreme point. Because, essentially it actually makes her look more masculine. As it often does look like a over-compensation for her more masculine-associated traits physical, which she CANNOT control (deep voice, very tall height and muscles). Why does Luisa have to be pushed into the whole girly girl thing so much conpared to the rest? It just looks like ppl try to make it up for what in her is not typical for women. So if she can't look small and delicate in stature and strenght she has to be the most feminine personality and interests-wise not to be concidered a man in a dress. Which is VERY messed up.

Because, surprize, Luisa is not more masculine by default to have and compensate for it. Why is the idea of Luisa wearing pants seems to frustate more people compared to the other girls? Why is she the one who would be jealous of pre-wecid Isabela's style? When Dolores and Mirabel would probably have far more reasons to do so just because of trauma. Luisa can enjoy masculine things amd femiline things. She doesn't have to go all over with feminization to be put in line with the rest of the girls.

And what is even worse is that by extension in a lot of the stereotypical potrayals of Luisa her positive masculine-associated traits are being swapped onto the opposite ones, which are aften viewed as negative and stereotypically being labeled on women. Such as always needing protection/somebody who speak up to her and saved her (while we clearly see Luisa as extremely protective over Mirabel during Surface Pressure). Or exaggerate her emotionality and vulnerability to the point she breaks into tears for the smallest things. Which honestly has very misogynistic implications. As it gets an idea that women (and feminine people as whole) are always weaker and unable to defend themselves. Or that their emotions are always very strong and irrational. And this is definitely not good thing to imply. As I did say, it turns into a godamn misogyny at this point where for Luisa being girly associated with the literal opposite of her character.

Again, there's nothing wrong with imagining that Luisa would love feminine, girly things. But there's also nothing wrong with Luisa preffering practical and simple style. And pushing her out of character just to make her more conventionally feminine isn't a good thing to do. She's a woman regardless of what she looks like and pushing the idea that she MUST look sertain way to be one is really bad. I can understand that most people never think that they make it all look like attepmt to compensate for non-typical look and actually have good intentions. Wanting to show that the way your body looks doesn't have to match your personality/interestsm. And that women like Luisa can still be very feminine. But in the end the entire thing gets very dimolished by the fact that Luisa is being basically forced into hyperbolisation where she can't express anything even remotely related to masculinity.

[encantobrainrot365]

I have an idea for a story I like to call Dos Oruguitas: The Mariposa and the Cameleon

It’s the story of Camilo and Mirabel’s relationship and how it changed over time.

Since they are only six weeks apart, they were born basically twins 🤞and grew up together as the best of friends. Just like Isabela, Dolores and the Triplets.

(Credit to @lintushadow-art )

However, things began to 👀, shift, when Mirabel didn’t get a gift.

I imagine the aftermath of that day was difficult for the both of them.

For Camilo, his best friend was just denied a gift, when he himself just got one. While he tried his best to comfort her, it must have been very hard for him to accept. It’s likely he felt guilty and tried to avoid shifting whenever they played together.

Meanwhile, Mirabel just couldn’t help being jealous or heartbroken. 💔 Her primo, her twin, got a gift, but for some reason she didn’t. For a long time she must have worried that something was seriously wrong with her and nothing anyone said could change that.

Then add the fact that Tio Bruno just up and left days after her ceremony. The family was already worried about Mirabel and the magic, and now they’re dealing with the pain and loss of a family member. A primary caretaker and play mate for the kids has disappeared with no explanation. Just like Mirabel’s door.

This would definitely lead to some abandonment and attachment issues.

There was probably a lot of fighting and anger, blame and accusations thrown about too. They might have even avoided each other for some time due to their own insecurities.

However, they still loved each other and they’re best friends, so of course they made up. But in spite of their closeness, they still drifted apart with time. They grew up and faced a lot of big changes. They started going to school; made new friends; developed their own separate interests; took on more responsibilities in town; welcomed a new family member; and just started spending less and less time together and more time apart.

Ten years later, we’re at the start of the movie, now, they’re still pretty close, but they aren’t best friends anymore. For Mirabel, that title belongs to Antonio, now.

So yes, it would be cool to explore the evolution of their relationship. Before and after the events of the movie as they fall apart, only to reunite again.

[youhaveadamproblem]

Due to my annual rewatch I finally need to say something I haven't read anywhere:

Bruno's Vision about the Dolores shows that he didn't see far enough. He also did this with the vision that Mirabel sees, because he broke up before he could see the whole thing, or the true ending.

With Mirabel, he first sees her breaking (or not breaking) Casita, then she's there with him 10yrs later and tells him to see more, so he sees the butterfly and the Isabela Hug.

With the vision for Dolores he probably saw her being sad while looking at Mariano (or "A guy"), and probably COULD have seen more, if he just waited.

And that may be true for more than just these two visions.

[faintvibes]

What is the Population of the Encanto Town?

Though I saw (and loved) this movie when it first came out, the brainworms have come back with a vengeance, and so here we are. This might end up becoming a series (it's certainly not the only analysis I have rattling around in my brain regarding this movie) but we'll see.

The analysis is below, but if you seek a quick answer: tl;dr at least 100 people live in the town, with that number possibly being as high as 1,000, but probably closer to 500 max.

So, of course, it's pretty much impossible to know the exact population of the town without a statement from the creative team, which- so far as I'm aware- hasn't been shared. (I've been going through the qna's recently, and haven't found any answer regarding this, but twitter also keeps mistaking my account for a bot, and I'm apparently incapable of passing the tests to prove I'm not. So I've definitely not seen every answer. If anyone has a masterpost somewhere, please send.) As a result, the best I can give is an estimate.

My starting point was Colombian fertility rates. These show, year by year, the average number of children born to each woman. The data for Colombia starts in 1950, approximately when the movie takes place. However, it's worth considering that the people in Encanto aren't living like it's 1950, but rather like 1900: when the town was founded, according to a map on the second floor of Casita.

In case anyone hasn't seen this map, here is an image of it, enhanced to make it a little clearer to read:

and here's the scene it appears in:

So, knowing this and generally observing the culture and customs of the people we see in the movie, it is very clear that they are living (generally) like it's still 1900. Therefore, the fertility rate is likely to be closer to whatever it was in 1900, rather than 1950. However, as I have no way to know what this might have been, the 1950 stat (6.4) is the best estimate I have.

By Number of Buildings

Judging both by that map, as well as this overview image of the town:

I estimated how many buildings there are, just by eyeing it. Note that this might lead to some inaccuracies, but I tried my best. Looking at the overview, I counted 97 buildings, however on the map I counted 103 (both of these counts include Casita). Since the map gives a clearer view of the individual buildings, I'm presuming that number to be more accurate.

Now, we know the town has a church and a school, both of which can be presumed to not house anyone. I'd also guess it has a town hall. Some of these buildings might also be shops, workshops, community buildings, etc, which presumably would also not house people. However, I have no way to estimate which buildings these might be, or how many buildings fulfil these purposes (also taking into consideration that some people live on top of their shops, and other such situations), I have decided to not bother counting these buildings, and just presuming that- outside of the three buildings I can confidently say are unlikely to house anyone- presume that every other building has at least one resident. That means the town has at least 100 residents. Add in the additional Madrigals, and this minimum is bumped up to 109. Going to the other end of things, my absolute maximum estimate for number of people per building would be 10, meaning my highest possible population estimate is 1,000.

The number 10 is both connected to the Madrigals, and the aforementioned birth rate. 6 kids and 2 parents would be 8 people a house, while the extra 2 gives leeway for more kids, or other relatives who might also be staying there.

People in Various Scenes

There are various scenes in the movie where we see a large number of townsfolk, and I figured judging the number of people we see in these scenes might give a sense of the size of the town. My mind first went to Antonio's gift ceremony, where we see a large number of people gathered in Casita to witness the event. I wouldn't expect the whole town, but it still might help in some sense.

The first image I used from the gift ceremony was of Abuela's speech, before Antonio makes the walk to his door. Here, we see an overview of most of the crowd:

While observing this image, I was able to count about 91 people, which jumped to 94 when I added in Mirabel, Antonio, and Bruno. It's worth noting, however, that there are most certainly people in this crowd who we don't see, just because of the angle.

The other screenshot I considered was this one:

It's harder to make out people, however, and there are most certainly less of the crowd visible than before. I counted 33 people (40, if you count the Madrigals we know to exist, but aren't visible), but this number is pretty much useless.

The next place I looked for this method was the scene in All of You, where the town comes out to help the Madrigals. There were two screenshots I used to come up with this next estimation:

Neither of them are exactly perfect, with people being small and hard to see in both images, but I did my best. It's likely the most complete image of the town's population we see. I counted around about 100, solidifying my minimum population number. Additionally, while the other two examples were limited by Casita's max capacity, the fact that this count is a similar number despite the far more open space indicates that this might be closer to the actual number of villagers than the higher estimates. Again, though, there's no way this is everyone in the town.

Looking at screenshots ended up leading me to my final method to estimate the town's population.

Ancestry

When we look at screenshots from Dos Oruguitas, we can see the scene where Alma, Pedro, and the rest of the people travelling with them cross the river where Pedro dies:

When watching this scene, before it cuts away from this image, you can see the moment people stop coming from the right side to join the end, so I'd be fairly confident in saying that the people pictured here are the entirety of the exodus. Minus Pedro, they are the entirety of the Encanto's initial residents. I was able to count their numbers, and estimate 33 adults (including Alma and Pedro), and 8 children (including the triplets), though it's likely that more are hidden by all the adults grouped together.

As a side note: I couldn't exactly spot him, but presumably Félix should be part of this group, as he was ~2 years old at the time of the miracle.

Additionally, I couldn't spot any elderly people during my count, so I'm presuming there aren't any in the group, and all the adults are roughly the same generation as Alma and Pedro (we'll call this Gen One). The kids pictured are then presumed to be part of Gen 2. Excluding A & P, who we know don't have any more children, that leaves around 15 potential couples, each of whom could have between 0 and let's say 7 children. This means Gen 2 could end up having between 8 and 105 members. Therefore, we can estimate that Gen 2 would have between 4 and 54 potential couples, who each could have between 0 and 7 children (Gen 3). Given we know that there are 6 Madrigal members of Gen 3, this means that there are anywhere from 6 to 378 members of Gen 3.

(Some young children seen in the movie could, perhaps, be part of Gen 4, but I've not included this in my numbers, as Gen 4 would be in its early stages, and so the number of potential members is difficult to calculate.

It's also worth nothing that the maximum couple numbers, and therefore offspring numbers, per generation are numbers I'd consider very unlikely to be reality. If people are having up to 7 kids each, then pairing up everyone in Gen 2 would inevitably lead to people likely being paired up with siblings, which I'd consider unlikely. The real couple number is probably closer to 20 or so for Gen 2. Additionally, it's likely that most adults in Gen 1 have family members also in the exodus, so the max of 15 pairs is also unlikely.)

Adding all these up, and considering the minimum of 100 people, this indicates that the Encanto's population is likely between 100 and 515.

Summary

Considering all these calculations, I again am certain that at least 100 people live in the Encanto. While my first method estimated a maximum population of 1,000, I believe my later estimations affirm that a number this high isn't likely. If I had to guess, there's probably between 150 and 300 people living in the Encanto. But hey, here's the info! Feel free to come to your own conclusions :) I'd be very interested to hear alternative reasoning!