Central America Political Violence and Protest Events by Municipality

This dataset tracks political violence and protest events across Central America, sourced from the ACLED database by Acción contra el hambre and GIS4tech. It records six specific event types including Armed Clashes, Riots, and Violence Against Civilians at the municipal, department, and country levels. The data was last updated in March 2026 to support conflict dynamics analysis.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the frequency of 'Violence Against Civilians' to identify high-risk municipal zones
• Mapping 'Protests' and 'Riots' to track regional political instability over time
• Correlating 'Armed Clashes' with 'Early Warning' alerts for conflict escalation modeling

Strengths

• Granular geographic reporting at the municipal and department levels
• Standardized event categorization based on the ACLED database framework
• Includes six distinct event types for multi-dimensional conflict analysis

Limitations

• Total record count and file size are not specified in the metadata
• Subject to reporting biases common in conflict data derived from media and local reports

Provenance

Source

ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project) via GIS4tech

Collection Method

Aggregated from the ACLED database and distributed via the PREDISAN platform

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Central America (Country, Department, and Municipal levels)