The dataset shows the number of court sentences issued and requests resolved per municipality in the individual restitution route of Colombia's Land Restitution Unit. It includes columns for hectares ordered for restitution, beneficiary counts, and municipality codes. The data is provided by www.datos.gov.co and was last updated on 2026-03-09.
Use Cases
- Analyze the geographic distribution of land restitution outcomes using Departamento de ubicación del predio and Municipio de ubicación del predio.
- Correlate the number of beneficiaries (No. de personas Beneficiadas en sentencia por municipio) with hectares ordered for restitution (No. de hectáreas con orden de restitución).
- Compare the volume of judicial activity (No. sentencias de ruta individual proferidas por municipio) with resolved requests (No. de solicitudes resueltas en sentencia por municipio).
- Assess gender-specific impacts of restitution sentences using the Mujeres Beneficiadas en sentencia por municipio column.
Strengths
- Includes 14 detailed columns covering judicial, demographic, and geographic dimensions of land restitution cases.
- Provides standardized geographic identifiers (Cód municipio DANE, Cód departamento DANE) for spatial analysis.
- Data is sourced from the official Colombian government open data portal (www.datos.gov.co).
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- www.datos.gov.co
- Collection Method
- Likely compiled from the administrative records of the Unidad de Restitución de Tierras (URT).
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-09 17:31:52; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Colombia, at the municipal and departmental level.