This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Ecuador from 1820 to the present day.
Conflict
Combatant 1
Combatant 2
Results
Ecuadorian War of Independence (1820–1822)
Guayaquil Gran Colombia Chile Peru Río de la Plata
Spain
Victory
Incorporation of the Real Audiencia of Quito into Gran Colombia.
Gran Colombia–Peru War (1828–1829)
Gran Colombia
Peru
Stalemate
Status quo ante bellum
War of Cauca [es] (1832)
Ecuador
New Granada
Defeat
Treaty of Pasto [es]
War of the Supremes (1839–1841)
New Granada Ecuador
Supremes
Victory
Ecuadorian–Peruvian War of 1857–1860 (1857–1860)
Ecuador
Peru
Defeat
Treaty of Mapasingue [es]
Diplomatic impasse arising from Ecuador's decision to grant its English creditors the vast Amazonian territories disputed with Peru. Ecuadorian failure.
Civil War of 1859 (1859–1860)
Supreme Leadership
Provisional Government
Provisional Government victory
Reunification of Ecuador
Ecuadorian–Colombian War (1863)
Ecuador
Colombia
Defeat
Ecuadorian withdrawal/capitulation (disputed) after the Battle of Cuaspud [es].
The Treaty of Pinsaquí
Chincha Islands War (1866)
Chile Peru Ecuador Bolivia
Spain
Both sides claimed victory
Spanish withdrawal from the Chincha Islands.
The state of war is maintained between the belligerent parties until the signing of an indefinite armistice in 1871.
Subsequently, Spain and the South American allies signed peace treaties separately: Peru (1879), Bolivia (1879), Chile (1883) and Ecuador (1885).
Combat of Angoteros [es] (1903)
Ecuador
Peru
Defeat[1]
Advance of an Ecuadorian detachment in Peruvian territory that was repelled on the banks of the Napo River
Combat of Torres Causana [es] (1904)
Ecuador
Peru
Defeat[2]
Advance of Ecuadorian troops in Peruvian territory in the area of the Aguarico river and Napo river until their subsequent expulsion, taking of prisoners and captured war material.
War of the Generals (1911–1912)
Supporters of Eloy Alfaro
Opponents of Eloy Alfaro
Anti-Alfaro victory
Ecuadorian Civil War of 1913–1916 (1913–1916)
Leónidas Plaza loyalists
Rebels of Esmeraldas Province
Government victory
Leónidas Plaza remains president
Government re-asserts control of Esmeraldas Province
Ecuadorian Civil War of 1932 (1932)
Supporters of Bonifaz
Various opponents
Opposition victory
Congress restored into power.
Ecuadorian–Peruvian War of 1941 (1941)
Ecuador
Peru
Defeat
Rio Protocol
World War II (1945)
United States Soviet Union United Kingdom China France Poland Canada Australia New Zealand India South Africa Yugoslavia Greece Denmark Norway Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Czechoslovakia Brazil Mexico Chile Bolivia Colombia Ecuador Paraguay Peru Venezuela Uruguay Argentina
Germany Japan Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria Croatia Slovakia Finland Thailand Manchukuo Mengjiang
Victory
Collapse of the German Reich
Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires
Creation of the United Nations
Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers
Beginning of the Cold War
Border incident between Peru and Ecuador of 1978 [es] (1978)
Ecuador
Peru
Defeat[3]
The base and the camp set up by the Ecuadorian troops are now controlled by the Peruvian Army
Paquisha War (1981)
Ecuador
Peru
Defeat
Status quo of 1942 in favor of Peru
Cenepa War (1995)
Ecuador
Peru
Both sides claimed victory
Brasilia Presidential Act
Status quo ante bellum
2024 Ecuadorian conflict
Ecuador
Several organized crime groups, particularly Los Choneros
Ongoing
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^Gutarra Maraví, Eleazar (1984). La Cordillera del Cóndor – Un desafío Geopolítico. Talleres Gráficos de la IMG.
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