Unique Registry of Disaster Victims in Sucre, Colombia

Registro Único Damnificados (RUD) data details the impact of events on people and housing in the Sucre department. The dataset includes counts of affected persons, families, and habitable, destroyed, and uninhabitable homes per municipality. It is hosted on the Colombian open data portal www.datos.gov.co and was last updated on May 18, 2026.

Use Cases

• Assess total population impact by aggregating the Personas column across Municipio and Evento.
• Compare housing damage severity by analyzing ratios of viviendas_destruidas to viviendas_habitables per event.
• Map disaster events over time by joining the fecha_evento and Municipio columns with geographic boundaries.
• Estimate family-level assistance needs by correlating the Familias and viviendas_no_habitables columns.

Strengths

• Data is structured with 9 distinct columns covering administrative, event, and impact dimensions.
• Includes specific damage categories for housing: habitable, destroyed, and uninhabitable.
• Provides a temporal dimension with a fecha_evento column for time-series analysis.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co

Collection Method

Likely an official administrative registry (Registro Único de Damnificados).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 16:55:49; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Department of Sucre, Colombia, with breakdown by Municipio.