EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD

Conflict in Ecuador

NOT LIVE · ECUADOR RECORD RUNS 1 JAN 2024 25 APR 2026

This is a verified record, not a live feed. UCDP hand-codes every event from published sources, which takes weeks — the newest event here is from 2026-05-31. For what is happening right now, LEV’s Global Incidents layer carries the machine-coded newswire at about fifteen minutes’ delay.

Between 1 Jan 2024 and 25 Apr 2026, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 551 events of organised violence in Ecuador from published sources. Their best estimate is 895 people killed — and their own range runs 646–1,134, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.

What the record holds

DEATHS RECORDED · UCDP BEST ESTIMATE895

UCDP range 646–1,134.

EVENTS551

543 placed precisely enough to map; 8 counted but not pinned, because UCDP could place them no closer than a province.

Who was doing the killing

State-based3 events · 3 killed (UCDP range 3–4)A government is one of the sides — a civil war or a war between states.
Non-state537 events · 874 killed (UCDP range 625–1,112)Two armed groups fight each other and neither is a government — militias, cartels, communal violence.
One-sided11 events · 18 killedAn armed group or government kills civilians who are not fighting back.

The conflicts behind the events

Los Choneros - Los Lobos500
302–713 · 404 ev
Los Lobos - Los Saobox94
81–99 · 33 ev
Unidentified actors59
UCDP low and high agree · 22 ev
Los Tiguerones Fenix faction - Los Tiguerones Ig47
47–48 · 10 ev
Los Chone Killers - Latin Kings36
33–42 · 18 ev
Los Lobos - Los Lobos Box31
31–32 · 1 ev

Where UCDP had not yet established an actor’s identity it records a placeholder rather than a name; those appear here as “unidentified actor”.

The deadliest single event on record

9 NOV 2025 · SAN ANTONIO DE MACHALA TOWN31 killed

UCDP range 31–32. UCDP's own estimate spans 31 to 32; 31 is its best estimate, not a certainty.

Los Lobos - Los Lobos Box · non-state violence — two armed groups fight each other and neither is a government — militias, cartels, communal violence.

Ecuador, elsewhere on LiveEarthViewer

Source

Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Uppsala University — UCDP GED v26.1 + UCDP Candidate v26_0_1..v26_0_5, released under CC BY 4.0. Coverage ends 31 May 2026. UCDP records Ecuador under the name “Ecuador”. Every figure on this page is UCDP’s, aggregated and labelled — none is modelled or estimated by LEV.