List of wars involving Colombia

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Colombia and its predecessor states from Pre-Hispanic times to the present day.

Picture Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Battle of Pasca
(~1470)

Zipazgo of the southern Muisca

Sutagao & Panche

Zipazgo victory
  • Sutagao submitted to Muisca rule
Battle of Chocontá
(~1490)

Zacazgo of the northern Muisca

Zipazgo of the southern Muisca

Zipazgo of the southern victory
Spanish conquest of the Muisca
(1537-1540)

Guecha warriors
of the Muisca

Conquistadors
of the Spanish Empire
Spanish victory
War of Jenkins' Ear
(1739-1748)
 Spain  Great Britain Status quo ante bellum
Seven Years' War
(1762-1763)
Anglo-Prussian coalition victory
Colombian War of Independence
(18101825)

Supported by:
 and its territories:

Colombian and Allied victory
Venezuelan War of Independence
(1811–1823)
Patriots
1811–1816:
Venezuela
Colombia
1816–1819:
Venezuela
Haiti
1819–1823:
Gran Colombia
Royalists
Spain
Patriot victory
Ecuadorian War of Independence
(1809–1822)

Spanish Empire

Patriot victory
  • Annexation of the territory to independent Gran Colombia
Dissolution of Gran Colombia
(1826-1831)

 Colombia

Venezuelan Separatists
Ecuadorian Separatists
Defeat
  • Dissolution of Gran Colombia into the republics of Venezuela, Ecuador and New Granada
Gran Colombia–Peru War
(1828–1829)
Gran Colombia Peru Stalemate
War of the Cauca
(1832)
New Granada Ecuador Victory
  • Neogranadine victory
Occupation of Bocas del Toro of 1836
(1836)
New Granada Federal Republic of Central America Victory
  • The Republic of New Granada takes possession of the Miskito Coast without Central American resistance
War of the Supremes
(1839–1841)
New Granada
Ecuador
Supremes Victory
Colombian Civil War of 1851
(1851)
New Granada Conservatives Victory
  • Liberation of the slaves
Colombian Civil War of 1854
(1854)
Constitutionalists Melist Government Victory
  • José María Melo exiled
Colombian Civil War of 1860–1862
(1860–1862)
Granadine Confederation Federal State of Cauca Defeat
Ecuadorian–Colombian War
(1862–1863)
Colombia Ecuador Victory
Colombian Civil War of 1876
(1876–1877)
Colombia Colombian Conservative Party Victory
Colombian Civil War (1884–1885)
(1884-1885)
Colombia Radical liberals Victory
  • New constitution in 1886, Colombia becomes a unitary republic
Panama Crisis
(1885)
Colombia
Chile
Panamanian Rebels Victory
Italian blockade of Colombia
(1885-1899)
Colombia Kingdom of Italy Stalemate
  • Payment of part of the debt
Colombian Civil War of 1895
(1895)
Colombia Liberal Rebels Victory
Curuchupadas
(1895-1899)
Ecuadorian Conservatives

Colombia

Ecuador Defeat
Thousand Days War
(1899–1902)
Colombia Colombian Liberal Party
Ecuador
Venezuela
Nicaragua
Guatemala
Victory
Separation of Panama from Colombia
(1903)
Colombia United States
Panama
Defeat
  • Independence of the then department of Panama from Colombia
Separation of Cauca from Colombia

(1909)

Colombia Interoceanic Republic Cauca parliamentarians intend to separate from Colombia and create their own state.
Battle of La Pedrera
(1911)
Colombia Peru Defeat
  • the Peruvians take the position after several days of combat
Separation of Arauca from Colombia
(1916)
Colombia Republic of Arauca Victory
  • The Colombian government once again takes control of Arauca
Colombia–Peru War
(1932–1933)
Colombia Peru Ceasefire
World War II
(1943–1945)
United States
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
 China
France
Poland
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
 India
 South Africa
 Yugoslavia
 Greece
Denmark
Norway
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
 Czechoslovakia
Brazil
Mexico
Chile
Bolivia
Colombia
Ecuador
Paraguay
Peru
Venezuela
Uruguay
Argentina
 Germany
 Japan
 Italy
 Hungary
 Romania
 Bulgaria
Croatia
Slovakia
 Finland
 Thailand
 Manchukuo
 Mengjiang
Victory
La Violencia
(1948–1958)
Colombia Colombian Liberal Party and allied militias Stalemate
Korean War
(1950–1953)
South Korea
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Turkey
Australia
Philippines
New Zealand
Thailand
Ethiopia
Greece
France
Colombia
Belgium
South Africa
Netherlands
Luxembourg
North Korea
China
Soviet Union
Ceasefire
Colombian Conflict
(1964–present)
Colombia

Supported by:
Peru
Panama
Mexico
Brazil
Ecuador
United States
Spain
United Kingdom

Colombian drug cartels and paramilitaries

Supported by:
Contras (1979–90)


Mexican drug cartels and paramilitaries


Colombian rebel guerrilla groups

Supported by:
Venezuela
Cuba
Belarus (from 2008)
Nicaragua (alleged)
Libya (until 2011)
Soviet Union
(until 1989)
Albania (financial support; 1960s–1970s)
Cartel of the Suns
FBL
Shining Path (factions)
ETA (1964–2018)
PIRA (1969–98)
PKK

Ongoing
Operation Traíra
(1991)
Brazil
Colombia
FARC Victory
  • Successful operation against FARC
Operation Atalanta
(2015)
European Union
Colombia
Pirates Victory
Operation Ocean Shield
(2015)
NATO
Colombia
Japan
Pirates Victory
Catatumbo campaign Colombia

Popular Liberation Army (EPL)


National Liberation Army (ELN)

  • Nororiental de Guerra

Los Rastrojos


FARC dissidents

Ongoing