CORTOLIMA Jurisdiction: Municipal Boundaries and Attributes for Tolima, Colombia (2018)

CORTOLIMA's jurisdiction defines four territorial directorates covering 34 municipalities in the Tolima department of Colombia. The dataset includes geometric shapes and municipal attributes such as area, population, founding year, and administrative category. It was published by www.datos.gov.co and last updated on 2026-05-18.

Use Cases

• Mapping municipal boundaries and calculating jurisdictional areas using `the_geom`, `Shape_Area`, and `mun_area`.
• Analyzing demographic distribution across territories using `mun_habita` (total inhabitants), `mun_haburb` (urban inhabitants), and `mun_habrur` (rural inhabitants).
• Classifying municipalities by administrative characteristics using `mun_catego` (category), `mun_provin` (province), and `Territoria` (territorial directorate).
• Joining this spatial data with other datasets using unique identifiers like `mun_codigo` (municipal code) or `dep_codigo` (department code).

Strengths

• Contains explicit geometric data (`the_geom`, `Shape_Area`, `Shape_Leng`) for spatial analysis.
• Includes over 20 columns of municipal attributes, from demographics (`mun_habita`) to administrative details (`mun_alcald`, `mun_fundac`).
• Based on a formal legal agreement (Acuerdo No. 30 of December 13, 2013), providing a clear jurisdictional definition.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality, such as population data currency, requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co

Collection Method

Likely digitized from official administrative and cartographic sources.

Time Range

Reference year is 2018.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 16:56:42; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Covers the Tolima department in Colombia, specifically 34 municipalities across four territorial directorates.