Ecuador

Amazon basin · 32 protected areas · 718 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: 32, 37,989 km² by GIS area (overlapping designations are summed, not dissolved)
  • Indigenous territories in the basin: 718, 82,683 km² by GIS area
  • Distinct illegal-mining scars centred inside any of its 82 page areas: 4

As of 2026-08-23. Species-at-risk counts and live alert/fire totals are on the dashboard's country card.

Under the most pressure

Protected areas (32)

Indigenous territories with a page (50 largest of 718)

See it live

Elsewhere