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Santander department, Colombia: events and estimated deaths in January 2025

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP GEDData through

UCDP recorded 1 event of organized violence in Santander department, Colombia in January 2025. The best estimate of deaths in this event is 3. UCDP counts 0 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. UCDP recorded no events in December 2024.

The report of the country for this month: Colombia, January 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 26.0.8, 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. Santander department, January 2025: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsLowHigh
18 Jan 2025Barrancabermeja municipality, Santander departmentEGC; ELNNon-state333

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Santander department: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of January 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
EGC13
ELN13

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 Santander department, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
August 20264P5PCandidate Events
July 20261P1PCandidate Events
February 20261P1PCandidate Events
August 202511GED
June 202512GED
April 202522GED
January 202513GED
October 202413GED

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

Santander department: all figures

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ConflictStats. Santander department, Colombia: events and estimated deaths in January 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/colombia/santander-department/month/2025-01/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.8. Data through .

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