Commercial Strawberry Cultivation Suitability Zoning Map for Colombia

Zoning map details land suitability for commercial strawberry farming across Colombia at a 1:100,000 scale. The dataset classifies municipal areas into five categories from 'High Suitability' to 'Legal Exclusion'. Colombia's National Planning Department published this zoning analysis in December 2019.

Use Cases

• Train a classifier to predict the 'Aptitud' (suitability) category for a municipality based on its 'Departamento' and 'Área (ha)'.
• Analyze the correlation between municipal administrative codes ('Código Dane Municipio') and assigned 'Gridcode' for spatial validation.
• Use 'The_geom' column to create a visual map overlay showing the distribution of 'Aptitud Alta' (High Suitability) zones.
• Calculate the total 'Área (ha)' classified under 'Exclusión legal' (Legal Exclusion) to quantify land legally restricted from strawberry farming.
• Join this dataset with other agricultural data using 'Código Dane Municipio' to study regional crop productivity patterns.

Strengths

• Contains five detailed suitability categories including legal restrictions.
• Provides data at a 1:100,000 scale for detailed spatial analysis.
• Includes municipal and departmental identifiers ('Código Dane') for joins with other Colombian datasets.

Limitations

• Sample data unavailable to verify data distributions or potential class imbalance in 'Aptitud' categories.
• The underlying methodology and specific physical/socioeconomic variables used for zoning are not detailed in the provided metadata.
• Data reflects conditions as of December 2019 and may not represent current land suitability.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co (Colombian open data portal).

Collection Method

Result of applying a commercial crop suitability zoning methodology to physical, socio-ecosystem, and socio-economic factors.

Time Range

Analysis reflects conditions as of December 2019.

Freshness

Last platform update was December 2025, but the underlying study is from December 2019.

Geography

Colombia, at the municipal level.