Colombian Land Restitution Claims by Department and Municipality

Solicitudes de Restitución por Departamento y Municipio shows the number of land restitution claims registered, unregistered, in process, and micro-focused, disaggregated by the department and municipality of the property location. The data is sourced from the STRDAF (Registro de Tierras Despojadas y Abandonadas Forzosamente) as per Article 76 of Law 1448 of 2011. It includes counts of properties and titleholders per claim.

Use Cases

• Analyzing geographic distribution of land claims using MunicipiodelPredio and DepartamentodelPredio columns.
• Tracking administrative processing status by comparing NumerodeSolicitudesInscritasenelSRTDAF, NumerodeSolicitudesNoInscritasenelSRTDAF, and NumerodeSolicitudesenTramiteAdministrativoVigente.
• Assessing claim complexity by correlating NumerodePredios and NumerodeTitulares with claim status.
• Identifying micro-focused restitution efforts using the NumeroSolicitudesMicrofocalizadas column.

Strengths

• Data is structured with 11 distinct columns for detailed administrative and geographic analysis.
• Includes a FechadeCorte column, suggesting a specific data snapshot for temporal consistency.
• Geographic granularity is provided down to the municipal level with CodigoDANEMunicipio.

Limitations

• Row count and total dataset size are unknown, limiting suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co

Collection Method

Administrative records from the STRDAF (Registro de Tierras Despojadas y Abandonadas Forzosamente).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 16:57:10; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Colombia, disaggregated by department and municipality.