Populated Places in Peru from OpenStreetMap

Peru's populated places, including cities, towns, villages, hamlets, and isolated dwellings, exported from OpenStreetMap. The dataset likely contains features tagged with place type, name, population, and location. It was created by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and last updated on 2026-05-05.

Use Cases

• Map settlement distribution based on place type tags.
• Analyze population density based on population attribute.
• Identify multilingual place names based on name:es, name:qu, and name:ay attributes.
• Classify residential land use based on landuse attribute.
• Assess data provenance and completeness based on source attribute.

Strengths

• Includes multilingual naming attributes (name:es, name:qu, name:ay, name:cni) for linguistic analysis.
• Covers multiple settlement types (city, town, village, hamlet, isolated_dwelling) and residential landuse.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, GARMIN IMG, SHP, GEOJSON).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2026-05-05 19:50:30.854776; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Export of features matching specific tags.

Freshness

2026-05-05

Geography

Peru