The violence was said to have broken out over a power dispute between criminal gangs, according to local media.
In a tweet, Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno said gangs had carried out "simultaneous acts of violence in several prisons in the country".
Police General Commander Patricio Carrillo said on Twitter on Tuesday that additional security forces had been dispatched to the prisons to regain control of them following the riots.
Images and videos circulating on social media show inmates gathered on a prison rooftop with police officers on motorcycles and in patrol cars surrounding the prison.
Following the bloody attack, relatives of those inside the prisons gathered outside them as they desperately await news of their loved ones.
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