A vicuña below the snow-capped Chimborazo volcano, Ecuador

Who needs a visa for Ecuador?

Latin America and the Caribbean · Quito

Photo: Dabit100 / David Torres Costales Riobamba / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

Of 198 nationalities, 152 enter Ecuador with no paperwork at all. The rest: 46 must be approved before they travel.

We have not found a Ecuador government portal we can link to with confidence, so we link to none — a lookalike is worse than nothing. Apply through Ecuador's own immigration service or its embassy.

What do you need?

Who needs what

Visa free 152

Nothing to apply for and nothing to pay before you travel.

eVisa (electronic visa) 46

A real visa application, made online instead of at an embassy. It is assessed, it takes days rather than minutes, and it can be refused.

About Ecuador

Region
South America
Capital
Quito
Population
18,289,896 2025 · 70th of 197
Size
276,841 km² 73rd largest of 199
Density
66 per km²
Language
Spanish
Currency
United States dollar USD
Borders
Colombia Peru

Capital, area, languages and currency from the open country dataset, pulled 21 September 2026. Population from the World Bank, series updated 13 July 2026. Density is calculated from the two figures above.