The present study aims to determine the public's knowledge about the rights of the animals covered by the legal norms by force in Ecuador. During the research, interviews will be used with people who have knowledge of territorial regulations and people who in their daily work have experience in saving lives and rescuing animals from serious situations. A mixed and bibliographic methodology of descriptive type was used. Tools were used for the gathering of the information like the interview, online survey to the citizenship where it was obtained as results that the youngest people have greater knowledge and conscience about the rights of the animals, having more care and empathy with the abandoned animals. In addition, there is a lack of knowledge among the elderly about the legal norms in favor of nature and animals, where animal rights are substantiated in the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador and the penalties are stipulated in the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code, which is applied at the national level, and Municipal Ordinance No. 10 of the GAD-Manta, it is also known that the causes and consequences that cause the abandonment of animals are unwanted litters, irresponsible people who have pets but do not care about their integral or reproductive health, it also influences the economic issue because some do not have as maintain them. Keywords: Violation of rights, Animal abandonment, Animal mistreatment, Rights of the animals. RESUMEN: El presente estudio tiene como objetivo determinar el conocimiento de la ciudadanía sobre los derechos de los animales amparados en las normas legales vigentes en el Ecuador. Para lo cual durante el desarrollo investigativo se utilizó entrevistas aplicadas a personas quienes tienen conocimiento en normativa territorial, y personas que en su labor diaria tienen experiencias permitiéndoles salvar vidas y rescatando a animales de situaciones graves. Se empleó una metodología de tipo mixta y bibliográfica de tipo descriptiva, se utilizó herramientas para el levantamiento de la información como la entrevista, encuesta online a la ciudadanía donde se obtuvo como resultados que las personas más jóvenes tienen mayor conocimiento y conciencia acerca de los derechos de los animales, teniendo más cuidado y empatía con los animales abandonados, además existe un desconocimiento de las personas mayores sobre las normas legales a favor de la naturaleza y de los animales, donde los derechos de los animales están sustanciados en  la Constitución de la República del Ecuador, y las penas se encuentran estipuladas en el Código Orgánico Integral Penal, que se aplican a nivel nacional y la Ordenanza Municipal No. 10 del GAD-Manta, además se conoce que las causas y consecuencias que ocasionan el abandono de los animales es las camadas no deseadas, personas irresponsables que tienen mascotas, pero no se preocupan de su salud integral ni reproductiva, también influye el tema económico ya que algunas no tienen como mantenerlas.. Palabras clave: Violación de derechos, Abandono de animales, Maltrato animal, Derechos de los animales. Recibido: 28 de septiembre de 2020; Aceptado: 04 de enero de 2021; Publicado: 08 de enero de 2021.The present study aims to determine the public's knowledge about the rights of the animals covered by the legal norms by force in Ecuador. During the research, interviews will be used with people who have knowledge of territorial regulations and people who in their daily work have experience in saving lives and rescuing animals from serious situations. A mixed and bibliographic methodology of descriptive type was used. Tools were used for the gathering of the information like the interview, online survey to the citizenship where it was obtained as results that the youngest people have greater knowledge and conscience about the rights of the animals, having more care and empathy with the abandoned animals. In addition, there is a lack of knowledge among the elderly about the legal norms in favor of nature and animals, where animal rights are substantiated in the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador and the penalties are stipulated in the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code, which is applied at the national level, and Municipal Ordinance No. 10 of the GAD-Manta, it is also known that the causes and consequences that cause the abandonment of animals are unwanted litters, irresponsible people who have pets but do not care about their integral or reproductive health, it also influences the economic issue because some do not have as maintain them. Keywords: Violation of rights, Animal abandonment, Animal mistreatment, Rights of the animals.