Unofficial
Severe weather
Ecuador
On 4 October 2026, the National Risk Management Secretariat (SNGR, per its acronym in Spanish) reported 101 adverse events across fifteen provinces as a result of heavy rainfall associated withthe El Niño phenomenon, with Esmeraldas, Guayas, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas and Los Ríos concentrating most of the impacts. Eight rivers were overflowing in Guayas and Esmeraldas, causing flooding in surrounding communities and affecting hundreds of families, with four houses reported collapsed in Muisne, Esmeraldas. The SNGR distributed humanitarian assistance kits containing food, hygiene and cleaning items, water storage tanks and sleeping materials to approximately 800 families in Esmeraldas, and established a temporary shelter at the Margarita Cortez coliseum, in Esmeraldas canton, housing 180 people. The Emergency Operations Committee remains in permanent session and will assess a declaration of emergency for Esmeraldas province. The report is available from: El Universo.