Health Facilities in Peru from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports from 2026-05-05 include all features tagged as healthcare amenities in Peru. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team compiled this dataset, which likely contains points for hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, and doctors' offices. Features may have attributes such as name, address, capacity, operator type, and healthcare specialty.

Use Cases

• Mapping healthcare facility locations based on geospatial coordinates.
• Analyzing facility types and specialties based on the healthcare and amenity tags.
• Assessing healthcare capacity and operator types for resource planning.
• Studying multilingual naming conventions based on name tags in Spanish, English, Quechua, Aymara, and Shipibo-Conibo.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a widely-used collaborative mapping project.
• Includes multilingual name fields (name:es, name:en, name:qu, name:ay, name:cni) which suggest cultural and linguistic coverage.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, GARMIN IMG, SHP, GEOJSON) for interoperability.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update timestamp is 2026-05-05 19:49:39.241056.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific healthcare tags.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 19:49:39.241056.

Geography

Peru