Guatemala Administrative Boundaries for Levels 0-2

A 2025-reviewed dataset provides geospatial boundaries for Guatemala's national and subnational administrative divisions. It includes 22 Admin 1 and 342 Admin 2 units, structured and published by OCHA Field Information Services (FIS) and HDX. The dataset is part of the Global Subnational Administrative Boundaries collection and is valid for humanitarian use.

Use Cases

• Create thematic maps for humanitarian response based on administrative unit boundaries.
• Aggregate or disaggregate socio-economic indicators to the departmental (Admin 1) level.
• Perform spatial joins for municipal (Admin 2) level analysis in GIS software.
• Integrate administrative boundaries into dashboards for regional monitoring and reporting.

Strengths

• Explicitly reviewed for accuracy and completeness on 30 October 2025.
• Contains a defined hierarchy of 22 Admin 1 and 342 Admin 2 units.
• Quality assured and published by authoritative humanitarian data organizations OCHA FIS and HDX.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale processing.
• Data may reflect geographic or source bias inherent to the humanitarian data platform.

Provenance

Source

OCHA Field Information Services Section (FISS)

Collection Method

Boundaries created by the source, configured and published via HDX.

Time Range

Boundaries created 15 February 2019; dataset reviewed 30 October 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-10 09:03:20.466708; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Guatemala