Venezuela Subnational Administrative Boundaries for 25 States and 1134 Parishes

A 2025-reviewed dataset provides administrative boundaries for Venezuela at three hierarchical levels. It includes 25 states, 335 municipalities, and 1134 parishes, contributed by OCHA Venezuela and quality assured by OCHA FIS and HDX. The dataset is part of the Global Subnational Administrative Boundaries collection and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Create administrative maps for humanitarian response based on the three-level boundary hierarchy.
• Conduct spatial analysis of demographic or resource distribution across states and municipalities.
• Integrate boundary data into GIS platforms for regional planning and service delivery.
• Validate or update local administrative gazetteers using the provided parish-level data.

Strengths

• Contains a three-level administrative hierarchy with specific counts: 25 states, 335 municipalities, and 1134 parishes.
• Quality assured and published by authoritative humanitarian organizations (OCHA FIS and HDX).
• Dataset was reviewed for accuracy and completeness in January 2025.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEODATABASE) for flexibility.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The underlying boundary geometry was created in May 2018, which may not reflect recent changes.

Provenance

Source

OCHA Venezuela, OCHA Field Information Services (FIS), HDX

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official administrative sources.

Time Range

Boundaries created May 2018; dataset reviewed January 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-10 09:06:36.540441; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)