Peru Administrative Boundaries for Levels 0 to 3

1873 third-level administrative units across Peru, structured into 25 first-level and 196 second-level divisions. The dataset was created by OCHA Latin America and the Caribbean, quality assured by OCHA FIS and HDX, and last reviewed for accuracy in October 2025. It is part of a global collection of subnational administrative boundaries.

Use Cases

• Create thematic maps for humanitarian needs assessment based on the three-level administrative hierarchy.
• Aggregate or disaggregate socio-economic statistics based on the defined administrative units.
• Perform spatial joins for disaster risk analysis using the provided geospatial boundaries.
• Develop gazetteer services for Peru using the structured administrative names and codes.

Strengths

• Contains 1873 detailed third-level administrative units.
• Explicitly reviewed for accuracy and completeness on 30 October 2025.
• Published under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license, allowing for reuse with attribution.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoJSON, SHP, and Geodatabase.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The underlying boundary geometry was created in July 2015, which may not reflect recent administrative changes.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale processing.

Provenance

Source

OCHA Latin America and the Caribbean (ROLAC), OCHA Field Information Services (FIS), and HDX.

Collection Method

Boundaries created by the source, quality assured, configured, and published.

Time Range

Boundaries created 24 July 2015; dataset valid for use from 14 July 2020.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-10 09:05:13.848698; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Peru.