Costa Rica - GLIDE Disaster Events: Geospatial Disaster Records

GLIDE numbers are GLobal unique IDEntifiers for Disasters, designed to make disaster information interoperable across multiple sources. The dataset contains disaster event records for Costa Rica, likely including location and event type, in CSV and GeoJSON formats. It is published by the GLIDE Initiative under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license and was last updated on 2026-06-23.

Use Cases

• Map disaster event locations over time based on the geospatial data.
• Cross-reference disaster information from different agencies based on the unique GLIDE identifier.
• Analyze disaster frequency and types in Costa Rica based on the event records.

Strengths

• Uses a globally recognized unique identifier (GLIDE number) adopted by UN-OCHA, UNDRR, and other major institutions.
• Available in both tabular (CSV) and geospatial (GeoJSON) formats for different analytical needs.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

GLIDE Initiative

Collection Method

Registered disaster records from multiple sources.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23 23:52:00.181551; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Costa Rica