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Atlántico department, Colombia: events and estimated deaths in May 2025

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP GEDData through

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UCDP recorded 3 events of organized violence in Atlántico department, Colombia in May 2025. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 3. The low estimate is 2 and the high estimate is 3. UCDP counts 2 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for April 2025 was 1 event.

Among the 26 months with a report for Atlántico department, Colombia, May 2025 has the 21st highest count of events. Atlántico department, Colombia holds 5 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Colombia in May 2025.

The report of the country for this month: Colombia, May 2025.

Not all events in UCDP Candidate will make it into the final UCDP GED and new events will be added. The UCDP Candidate is a dataset containing events that have a high probability of being included in the final annual version of UCDP GED.

An incident where armed force was used by an organized actor against another organized actor, or against civilians, resulting in at least 1 direct death at a specific location and a specific date

UCDP's words. Source: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset Codebook, version 1.5 (Introduction) and UCDP GED Codebook, version 26.1 (section 2, the definition of an event), copied on .

This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9, with data through . The figures from January 2026 are from Candidate Events. Candidate Events are preliminary and UCDP revises them.

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Events

The table lists each event of the month. The CSV file of Colombia has each event.

Table 1. Atlántico department, May 2025: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsLowHigh
4 May 2025Barranquilla municipality, Atlántico departmentLos Costenos; CiviliansOne-sided111
10 May 2025Puerto Colombia municipality, Atlántico departmentEGC; CiviliansOne-sided101
12 May 2025Barranquilla municipality, Atlántico departmentLos Costenos; Los PepesNon-state111

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Atlántico department: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of May 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
EGC11
Los Costenos22
Los Pepes11

An event has two sides, so one event can be in two rows. The deaths are the deaths in the events of a side. The table does not say which side caused a death.

All months

Table 3. Monthly reports of Atlántico department, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 202629P32PCandidate Events
August 202670P79PCandidate Events
July 202680P81PCandidate Events
June 202682P98PCandidate Events
May 202637P37PCandidate Events
April 202627P31PCandidate Events
March 20267P9PCandidate Events
February 202626P32PCandidate Events
January 202629P37PCandidate Events
December 20251012GED
November 202577GED
October 202522GED
September 202564GED
August 20251910GED
July 20251817GED
June 2025913GED
May 202533GED
April 202511GED
March 202533GED
February 202522GED
January 2025610GED
December 202422GED
November 2024910GED
October 202442GED
September 202444GED
August 202475GED

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events. Search engines list a report of a month in the last 12 months that has 30 or more events. The other reports stay online and ask search engines not to list them.

Atlántico department: all figures

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ConflictStats. Atlántico department, Colombia: events and estimated deaths in May 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/colombia/atlantico-department/month/2025-05/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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