Deforested Areas in Chocó Department with Cause and Location

Areas degraded by mining, cultivation, and livestock in Colombia's Chocó Department are documented with coordinates and hectares. The dataset is provided by the environmental authority of Chocó via the Colombian open data portal. It was last updated in December 2025.

Use Cases

• Map deforestation hotspots by plotting LATITUD and LONGITUD coordinates for each record.
• Analyze primary drivers of land degradation by aggregating records by the CAUSA column (e.g., mining, cultivation).
• Assess annual deforestation trends by summarizing total AREA_Ha per AÑO (year).
• Identify municipalities most affected by degradation using the MUNICIPIO column for jurisdictional analysis.
• Link specific degradation events to satellite imagery using the IMAGEN field for visual validation.

Strengths

• Includes specific geospatial coordinates (LATITUD, LONGITUD) for precise location mapping.
• Documents multiple causal factors (CAUSA) and area in hectares (AREA_Ha) for quantitative analysis.
• Provides a TIPO GEOMETRIA field indicating the geometric data structure for GIS integration.

Limitations

• Unknown total number of records (rows) and dataset size, limiting assessment of statistical power.
• Potential geographic bias as data is limited to the Chocó Department of Colombia.
• Relies on observational data (OBSERVACION column) which may introduce label noise or inconsistency.

Provenance

Source

Environmental authority of the Chocó Department, Colombia, via www.datos.gov.co.

Collection Method

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Time Range

Temporal coverage is indicated by the AÑO column, but specific range is unknown.

Freshness

Last updated in December 2025, indicating recent maintenance.

Geography

Chocó Department, Colombia.