Persistent rainfall has affected more than 22,000 people in Ecuador.

On October 16 local time, Ecuador's National Secretariat for Risk Management reported that since the country activated a red alert on August 29 due to the El Nio phenomenon, 22 of the country's 24 provinces have recorded 381 secondary disaster events such as floods and landslides caused by sustained rainfall, resulting in 1 death, 22,415 people affected, and 5,282 homes damaged to varying degrees. Ecuador's National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology stated that moderate to heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, and gusts may still occur in coastal areas in the coming days, and intermittent rainfall may also occur in the northern and central parts of the Amazon region.