Cultural and Historic Places in Argentina from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports for Argentina contain cultural and historic places tagged via `tourism`, `amenity`, `historic`, or `heritage`. The data includes museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites. It was last updated on 2026-05-13 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Map cultural heritage sites for protection based on `historic` and `heritage` tags.
• Analyze the distribution of tourism amenities like museums and galleries based on `tourism` and `amenity` tags.
• Study the spatial relationship between places of worship and other community facilities based on `amenity` tags.
• Create tourism context maps for regional planning based on the combined cultural place data.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map built by volunteers.
• Covers multiple cultural place types: museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, remote areas may be incomplete.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping and tagging.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 19:52:29.305741; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Argentina