Floods Hit Guayaquil and Six Ecuadorian Cantons, Downing Trees and Opening Sinkholes

Flooding set off by heavy rain hit Guayaquil and six other cantons across four Ecuadorian provinces between Sunday night and Monday morning, Oct. 18–19, 2026, with Ecuador's national disaster-risk agency, SNGR, counting 11 adverse events in the affected provinces, El Comercio (Ecuador) reported.

The agency's tally, covering 7 p.m. Sunday to 7 a.m. Monday, included eight floods, two landslides and one electrical storm, the newspaper said.

In Guayaquil, the city's public drainage utility, Segura EP, reported 70 flood-affected sectors after more than 10 hours of rain between Sunday night and Monday morning accumulated to 220.01 millimeters, El Comercio (Ecuador) reported separately. One shopkeeper in the city estimated the day's lost sales at between $450 and $500.

In the Tenguel sector of Guayaquil canton, El Universo reported that Segura EP recorded seven flood-affected areas after the Tenguel River overflowed its banks. The outlet put the number of affected sectors in urban Guayaquil at about 60, with 170.37 millimeters of rain accumulating from early Monday morning to 8 a.m. Five trees fell and two sinkholes opened in the city, El Universo said.