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NXS-GRX-ECU · South America · Regions

Los Ríos

First-level unit, Ecuador: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Map All 24 first-level units
Page GRX-ECU-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO ECU / ECStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
962,563
people (GHSL 2025)
7,240 km²
area
5.4%
of Ecuador
13
units inside

01Map

Inside Los Ríos

The 13 ADM2 units of Los Ríos.

FIG 1 · 13 units inside Los Ríos
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

962,563

5.4% of Ecuador.

People · WorldPop 2025

940,745

-2% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

ప్రాంతం

7,240 km²

133 people per km².

కోడ్

EC-R

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

228,201

people on land at or below 10 m, 23.7% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Los Ríos in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2020-12-31

921,763

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Poverty headcount · 2018-12-31

3%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

242%

of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

04Units

13 units inside Los Ríos

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit కోడ్ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Baba – 54,186 56,375 519.8 104 5.6% 44,213
Babahoyo – 192,232 184,490 1,092.1 176 19.9% 159,286
Buena Fe – 78,151 78,632 583.61 134 8.1% 0
Mocache – 39,726 38,487 570.89 70 4.1% 0
Montalvo – 30,095 30,876 364.68 83 3.1% 2,636
Palenque – 26,232 26,055 582.67 45 2.7% 0
Puebloviejo – 44,762 43,524 336.78 133 4.6% 8,464
Quevedo – 222,140 215,524 306.29 725 23% 0
Quinsaloma – 16,375 21,555 284.06 58 1.7% 0
Urdaneta – 38,816 37,376 380.3 102 4% 4,383
Valencia – 49,488 53,146 982.12 50 5.1% 0
Ventanas – 83,667 79,769 533.2 157 8.7% 0
Vinces – 91,333 81,298 698.84 131 9.4% 9,494
05బహిర్గతం

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
None at this resolution
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
488.7 H3 cells
Railways
13.8 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06ప్రమాదం

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Los Ríos publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Ecuador.
Run a scenario Hazards Domain indices
07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08మూలాలు

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen ECU ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons, licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication · source · represents 2011
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen ECU ADM2, source: INEC – Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, OCHA ROLAC, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2019
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
దేశాలు
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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