Commercial Hass Avocado Cultivation Suitability Zoning For Colombia

December 2019 product maps the commercial cultivation suitability for Hass avocado across Colombia at a 1:100,000 scale. It classifies land into five categories: High, Medium, and Low Suitability, Not Suitable, and Legal Exclusion zones. The dataset was produced by applying a commercial crop suitability zoning methodology.

Use Cases

• Identify municipalities with High Suitability (Aptitud) for commercial avocado farming using the Municipio and Aptitud columns.
• Analyze the total suitable land area per department by aggregating the Área (ha) field filtered by Aptitud and grouped by Departamento.
• Cross-reference zoning categories with legal restrictions by filtering for Exclusión legal in the Aptitud column.
• Assess regional investment potential by joining municipal DANE codes (Código Dane municipio) with other economic datasets using the provided geometry (The geom).

Strengths

• Provides a detailed five-category land suitability classification (Aptitud).
• Includes geographic area in hectares (Área (ha)) for each zoning polygon.
• Offers join keys for municipal (Código Dane municipio) and departmental (Código departamento) analysis.

Limitations

• Specific row count and total dataset size are unknown.
• Data reflects conditions and legal mandates as of December 2019, which may be outdated.
• Sample data is unavailable to preview actual values and distributions.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co

Collection Method

Produced by applying a documented commercial crop suitability zoning methodology.

Time Range

Analysis dated December 2019.

Freshness

Last updated metadata indicates 2025-12-19, but the underlying analysis is from December 2019.

Geography

Colombia.