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Manabí province, Ecuador: events and estimated deaths in January 2026

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UCDP recorded 10 eventsP of organized violence in Manabí province, Ecuador in January 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 84P. The low estimate is 77 and the high estimate is 91P. UCDP counts 1P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for December 2025 was 7 events.

The count for January 2025 was 51 events. The change from January 2025 to January 2026 is down 80 percentP. Among the 24 months with a report for Manabí province, Ecuador, January 2026 has the 16th highest count of events. Manabí province, Ecuador holds 17 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in Ecuador in January 2026. In January 2025, the share was 89 percent.

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

The report of the country for this month: Ecuador, January 2026.

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 .

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Events

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

Table 1. Manabí province, January 2026: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsPLowHigh
1 Jan 2026Manabí provinceActor not identified by UCDP; Actor not identified by UCDPNon-state655872
6 Jan 2026Cantón Montecristi, Manabí provinceLos Choneros; Los LobosNon-state111
6 Jan 2026Cantón Manta, Manabí provinceLos Choneros; Los LobosNon-state111
11 Jan 2026Cantón Puerto López, Manabí provinceActor not identified by UCDP; Actor not identified by UCDPNon-state555
12 Jan 2026Cantón Jama, Manabí provinceLos Choneros; Los LobosNon-state333
17 Jan 2026Cantón Manta, Manabí provinceLos Choneros; Los LobosNon-state111
25 Jan 2026Cantón Montecristi, Manabí provinceLos Choneros; Los LobosNon-state222
25 Jan 2026Cantón Manta, Manabí provinceLos Choneros; Los LobosNon-state111
25 Jan 2026Cantón Montecristi, Manabí provinceLos Choneros; Los LobosNon-state444
31 Jan 2026Cantón Manta, Manabí provinceActor not identified by UCDP; CiviliansOne-sided111

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

Names are as UCDP writes them, with two labels that the site writes. UCDP does not identify some actors: the site writes "Actor not identified by UCDP" for each of them. UCDP names some groups for a person: the site writes "Group named for a person (name not shown)" for each of them. A line with a label can hold more than one actor.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Manabí province: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of January 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Actor not identified by UCDP3P71P
Los Choneros7P13P
Los Lobos7P13P

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. Names are as UCDP writes them, with two labels that the site writes. UCDP does not identify some actors: the site writes "Actor not identified by UCDP" for each of them. UCDP names some groups for a person: the site writes "Group named for a person (name not shown)" for each of them. A line with a label can hold more than one actor.

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

All months

Table 3. Monthly reports of Manabí province, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20268P10PCandidate Events
August 202612P22PCandidate Events
July 20262P3PCandidate Events
June 20262P3PCandidate Events
April 20267P8PCandidate Events
March 202610P10PCandidate Events
February 20267P21PCandidate Events
January 202610P84PCandidate Events
December 2025723GED
November 202536GED
September 20251214GED
August 20251627GED
July 20251734GED
June 2025145GED
May 20254131GED
April 20251829GED
March 20251710GED
February 20252026GED
January 20255140GED
December 20242135GED
November 20241217GED
October 20242424GED
September 20241510GED
August 20241418GED

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.

Manabí province: all figures

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ConflictStats. Manabí province, Ecuador: events and estimated deaths in January 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/ecuador/manabi-province/month/2026-01/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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