Ecuador

Amazon basin · 56 protected areas · 697 Indigenous territories

The numbers

  • Forest cover, whole country: 49.5% of land (2023, World Bank — national, not basin-only)
  • Land area, whole country: 248,360 km² (2023)
  • Population, whole country: 18,289,896 (2025)
  • Protected areas in the basin: 56, 65,889 km² by GIS area (overlapping designations are summed, not dissolved)
  • Indigenous territories in the basin: 697, 75,546 km² by GIS area
  • Distinct illegal-mining scars centred inside any of its 124 page areas: 47

As of 2026-09-12. Species-at-risk counts and live alert/fire totals are on the dashboard's country card.

Under the most pressure

Protected areas (56)

Indigenous territories with a page (68 largest of 697)

See it live

Defended by people in Ecuador

  • Amazon Watch — campaigns with Indigenous federations against extractive projects

Satellites only watch; these organisations work on the ground. Links go to their own sites — Canopy Watch does not receive or process any funds. More on the Help page.

Elsewhere