Colombian Land Restitution Claims: Administrative and Judicial Stage Data

Solicitudes de Restitución Etapa Administrativa y Judicial tracks land restitution requests filed under Law 1448 of 2011. The data, managed by the Unidad Administrativa de Gestión de Tierras Despojadas y Abandonadas Forzosamente, includes counts of claims, properties, and claimants disaggregated by gender and municipality. It was last updated on 2026-05-18.

Use Cases

• Analyze gender distribution of claimants using TitularesGeneroHombre and TitularesGeneroMujer (from 13 available columns).
• Map the geographic concentration of claims by department and municipality using Departamentodelpredio and Municipiodelpredio (from 13 available columns).
• Compare the scale of administrative versus judicial proceedings using NumerodeSolicitudesenelSRTDAF and SolicitudesMicrofocalizadas (from 13 available columns).
• Assess claimant representation in legal demands using TitularesDemanda, TitularesDemandaGeneroHombre, and TitularesDemandaGeneroMujer (from 13 available columns).

Strengths

• Data is gender-disaggregated with separate columns for male and female claimants.
• Includes geographic identifiers (CodigoDANE) for spatial analysis.
• Distinguishes between different procedural stages of land restitution claims.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Unidad Administrativa de Gestión de Tierras Despojadas y Abandonadas Forzosamente, via www.datos.gov.co.

Collection Method

Administrative records of claims filed under Law 1448 of 2011 and related decrees.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 18:25:33; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Colombia, disaggregated by department and municipality.