# 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.
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results |
| Battle of Pasca (~1470) | Zipazgo | Sutagao Panche | Victory The Sutagao people are submitted to the rule of the leader of Bacatá within the Muisca Confederation |
| Battle of Chocontá (~1490) | Zipazgo | Zacazgo | Victory The Muisca people of Bacatá defeat the army from the Muisca people of Hunza. The rulers of both sides die in the battle |
| Spanish conquest of the Muisca (1537-1540) | Muisca Confederation | Crown of Castile Province of Santa Marta | Defeat The Muisca Confederation becomes part of the Spanish Empire and the New Kingdom of Granada is created |
| War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-1748) | Kingdom of Spain Viceroyalty of New Granada Viceroyalty of New Spain Viceroyalty of Peru Spanish Florida Captaincy General of Cuba | British Empire Province of Georgia Province of North Carolina | Stalemate Status quo ante bellum |
| Seven Years' War (1756-1763) | France Spanish Empire Austria Saxony Hesse-Darmstadt Russia (until 1762) Sweden Kalmykia | British Empire Hanover Prussia Portugal Hesse-Kassel Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Schaumburg-Lippe Russia | Defeat Status quo ante bellum |
| Colombian War of Independence (1810–1823) | New Granada Cundinamarca Gran Colombia | Spain | Victory |
| Venezuelan War of Independence (1811–1823) | Venezuela New Granada Gran Colombia | Spain | Victory |
| Ecuadorian War of Independence (1820–1822) | Guayaquil Gran Colombia Chile Peru Río de la Plata | Spain | Victory Incorporation of the Real Audiencia of Quito into Gran Colombia |
| Dissolution of Gran Colombia (1826-1831) | Gran Colombia | Venezuelan Separatists Ecuadorian Separatists | Defeat Disintegration of Gran Colombia |
| Gran Colombia–Peru War (1828–1829) | Gran Colombia | Peru | Stalemate Status quo ante bellum |
| 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 Golgotha Liberals Conservatives | Melist Government Draconian Liberals | Victory José María Melo exiled |
| Colombian Civil War of 1860–1862 (1860–1862) | Granadine Confederation | Federal State of Cauca | Defeat Victory for the Federal State of Cauca and Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera Formation of the United States of Colombia |
| Ecuadorian–Colombian War (1862–1863) | Colombia | Ecuador | Victory |
| Colombian Civil War of 1876 (1876–1877) | Colombia Colombian Liberal Party | 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 Rebellion suppressed Colón burned |
| Italian blockade of Colombia (1885-1899) | Colombia | Kingdom of Italy | Stalemate Payment of part of the debt |
| Colombian Civil War of 1895 (1895) | Colombia Colombian Conservative Party | Liberal Rebels | Victory |
| Curuchupadas (1895-1899) | Ecuadorian Conservatives Colombia | Ecuador Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party | Defeat |
| Thousand Days War (1899–1902) | Colombia Colombian Conservative Party | Colombian Liberal Party Ecuador Venezuela Nicaragua Guatemala | Victory Continuation of the present day Republic of Colombia |
| Separation of Panama from Colombia (1903) | Colombia | United States Panama | Defeat Independence of the then department of Panama from Colombia |
| 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 Status quo ante bellum mediated by the League of Nations |
| 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 Collapse of the German Reich Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires Creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers Beginning of the Cold War |
| La Violencia (1948–1958) | Colombia Armed Forces Colombian Conservative Party Guerrillas of Peace (conservative paramilitaries) | Colombian Liberal Party and allied militias Liberal Guerrillas Bandits Colombian Communist Party Peasant Self-Defense Groups | Stalemate Creation of the National Front Colombian conflict |
| 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 North Korean invasion of South Korea repelled. UN invasion of North Korea repelled. Chinese invasion of South Korea repelled. Korean Demilitarized Zone established, little territorial change at the 38th parallel border, essentially uti possidetis. |
| Colombian Conflict (1964–present) | Colombia | FARC FARC Dissidents ELN EPL IRAFP | Ongoing |
| Operation Traíra (1991) | Brazil Colombia | FARC | Victory Successful operation against FARC |
| Operation Atalanta (2015) | European Union Colombia | Pirates | Victory Prevent acts of piracy off the coast of Somalia Instruct allied nations on naval and structural operations |
| Operation Ocean Shield (2015) | NATO Colombia Japan | Pirates | Victory Prevent acts of piracy off the coast of Somalia Escort ships from the United Nations World Food Programme |
| Catatumbo campaign | Colombia | EPL ELN FARC | Ongoing |