Ecuador license plates

Format, region codes and a plate generator for Ecuador.

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Custom text: real plates never carry this combination.

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How to read the plate

Region code

Letters at the start of the number.

Series and number

Letters and digits — the registration itself.

County

The first characters are the code of the county where the car is registered: The county where the car is registered is shown separately on the plate:

An Ecuadorian plate (since 2012) has three letters, a dash and four digits: PBB-3239, on a silver-grey plate with ECUADOR on top. The first letter is the province of registration: P for Pichincha, G for Guayas, A for Azuay and so on. The second letter shows the type of owner: A, U and Z commercial, E government, X official, M local authorities, the rest private. Private plates have no colour band, commercial ones have an orange band and government ones a gold band. For seven provinces the plate letter differs from the ISO code — Cañar is U and Sucumbíos K, for instance.

Region map

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Region codes

24 regions

Region	Code
Azuay Province	A
Bolívar Province	B
Carchi Province	C
Esmeraldas Province	E
Guayas Province	G
Chimborazo Province	H
Imbabura Province	I
Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Province	J
Sucumbíos Province	K
Loja Province	L
Manabí Province	M
Napo Province	N
El Oro Province	O
Pichincha Province	P
Orellana Province	Q
Los Ríos Province	R
Pastaza Province	S
Tungurahua Province	T
Cañar Province	U
Morona Santiago Province	V
Galápagos Province	W
Cotopaxi Province	X
Santa Elena Province	Y
Zamora Chinchipe Province	Z

History

Before 2012 plates used the ABC-123 format with the same province letter in front. Santa Elena (Y) and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas (J) got their letters after the two provinces were created in 2007. Since June 2012 the ANT agency has issued plates in the current ABC-1234 format.