How to use the map of Arauca
Explore 156 activity areas for Arauca published by IGAC in 2025: 82 records with an institutional-and-service code, 42 residential and 32 mixed. Detail distinguishes recreational sectors, commercial corridors and the waterfront. Rural zoning remains pending because of geometry size. The IGAC register retrieved on 6 October 2026 reports two entries for the 2000 PBOT as repealed and the 2015 PBOT as current, Agreement 200.02.013 of 9 September 2015. All three list an update on 15 December 2024; they do not link acts to polygons.
Planning instrument records · IGAC ↗GeoSAT · Page updated:
Locate an area and understand its identifiers
Open Planning and select an area; filter Uso_Principal by 7 to explore mixed activity and compare sector detail. The viewer keeps Arauca selected when panning toward the border. For rural mapping, use the pending official-source link; the UPRA agricultural frontier has a different scope. Query the three instruments under Tools and confirm the rules with Planning.
81001 identifies Arauca in DANE. OBJECTID distinguishes mapping records, not parcels or permits. Property-registration and parcel-number search are not enabled. Area codes retain the semantics published by IGAC.
Use Explore to search and choose queries, Layers to enable and inspect sources, and Thematic maps to compare categories. Under Layers, “Tools and planning register” opens Tools; “Inspect and export results” opens received attributes and results.
In Tools, “Reported planning instruments” lets you inspect municipal acts and their statuses in the national register. Select “Look up national register” to load this city’s records. Instrument status and long-term validity are separate fields; the register may be outdated and does not certify parcel rules. Links open the IGAC source, ColombiaOT and the local portal; they do not open an act PDF directly.
Your first query
Arauca · IGAC activity areas · latitude, longitude: 7.072726, -70.747408
- Open the example to load the first planning layer at this location. Enter these coordinates in search to return to the area.
- Inspect the layer categories and select a feature to read its attributes. Zoom in if the layer indicates a minimum query scale.
- Enable another layer in the theme to compare boundaries. Map overlap does not constitute an official planning opinion for a parcel.
Arauca · Public query
Planning activity areas
Explore 156 activity areas for Arauca, published by IGAC. Select an area to read its main use, detail, category and observations. Compare labels in the legend and filter by the published code.
Open Arauca map →Choose an available query
Each query enables its layers at a starting location. Read its page to check what is included and where the data comes from.
Planning: IGAC activity areas
Explore activity areas published for Arauca; check missing data and observations before interpretation
Open on the map ↗Activity areas · IGAC 2025
Select an area of Arauca to inspect codes, labels and observations from activity areas · igac 2025
Open on the map ↗IGAC territorial divisions
Territories around Arauca · name, code and legal reference
Open on the map ↗UPRA agricultural frontier
Rural context around Arauca · 1:100,000 scale, municipalities and codes
Open on the map ↗INVÍAS road alignments and attributes
Routes around Arauca · section, administrator, carriageway and surface codes; generalized mapping
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Interpret results before sharing
- Read each layer and record’s source and date. Retrieval time shows when the response was received; it does not establish a data update or legal validity.
- Check statuses: an unavailable source or a query without results does not establish that no conditions apply. If a partial-result notice appears, zoom in and repeat the query within a smaller area.
- Filters, thematic maps and statistics describe received records. Do not add overlapping polygons or turn a partial count into a city total.
- Share the public view or export results with their source and date. Measurements are approximate; imported files remain in your browser and are excluded from shared links.
Sources, dates and limits
Each source’s verification date appears in the table. Retrieval time is not the data update date. Small city-wide layers use the full extent; larger layers depend on the visible area. Reference publications retain their original retrieval date. Each response contains up to 500 features and 2 MB. Reference publications load matching pages, up to 5,000 features and 8 MB per query. External services may return partial samples, identified in the viewer.
| Layer and source | Data date | Reuse |
|---|---|---|
| Activity areas · IGAC 2025Arauca municipality · IGAC / Colombia OT · GeoSAT adaptation: domain labels and empty values Reference mapping published by IGAC from municipal planning instruments. The catalog lists publication on 28 November 2025 and inputs dated 20 February 2025; these are not adoption dates or polygon update dates. Copy retrieved on 6 October 2026. The layer does not identify the applicable act for each feature: query the instrument register separately under Tools. Codes retain official domain labels without standardizing categories or filling nulls. Empty compatible, conditional or prohibited-use fields do not mean a use is allowed. All received polygons, rings and vertices are retained; counts do not represent parcels or exclusive areas. Queries load the visible area in pages. Does not certify authorized uses, building capacity, permits, planning validity or current hazards. Catalog scale 1:2.000. In Arauca, urban areas distinguish institutional, recreational, residential and mixed-activity sectors. Rural zoning is pending: 993 records were recovered in pages, but one geometry exceeds response-size and vertex limits even with coordinates rounded to six decimals. No incomplete copy is published and no absence of rural rules is inferred; the official service is linked. Compatible, conditional and prohibited uses are unreported. Zonificación rural oficial pendiente / Pending official rural zoning ↗ | 2025-11-28Source checked: | CC BY 4.0 · Colombia en Mapas |
| Territorial divisions · IGACInstituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi · Administrative divisions Territorial reference for the visible area: includes departments and neighboring municipalities or districts, with overlapping polygons. Do not add their areas or interpret results as a municipal count. Published categories: 0 department, 1 municipality, 2 district, 3 uncategorized; other codes are retained without a verified definition. Territorial codes remain text; they are not parcel identifiers. Depto and the legal reference are source attributes, not certification of administrative hierarchy or legal validity. Update date not declared. Geometries are generalized by zoom level and coordinates rounded for display; unsuitable for exact positioning, measuring areas or distances, or resolving boundaries. Credit IGAC and identify these changes when reusing. | No dataset-wide date declared; check individual recordsSource checked: | CC BY 4.0 |
| Agricultural frontier · UPRAUnidad de Planificación Rural Agropecuaria · UPRA Indicative reference at 1:100,000 scale, version 4.1 according to the service; not crop suitability, land-use permission or a parcel assessment. SIPRA warns against use for financial, credit or parcel-planning decisions. The metadata linked by SIPRA is titled June 2025 but lists creation on 2026-03-22 and publication/revision on 2025-05-29: no dataset-wide date is assigned. The methodology aggregates patches larger than 25 ha within 100 m and fills holes smaller than 25 ha. The viewer also generalizes geometry by zoom and rounds coordinates; do not measure areas or settle boundaries with it. Queried polygons may include neighboring municipalities and are not a complete municipal inventory. Empty results do not establish absence of restrictions. Department names and codes remain as published, without validating administrative hierarchy; municipal codes do not identify parcels. This layer does not distinguish conditioned and unconditioned agricultural frontier. Public use with UPRA attribution under its metadata terms; identify the display adaptation and consult the source and authorities for specific decisions. | No dataset-wide date declared; check individual recordsSource checked: | Public use with attribution · UPRA |
| Road network alignments · INVÍASInstituto Nacional de Vías · INVÍAS; generalized by GeoSAT Reference alignments of the road network published by INVÍAS, queried by area and including neighboring areas; not the complete municipal street network or a land-use query. Lines are generalized for display: do not measure distances or use them for navigation or parcel boundaries. No traffic, closures or section inspection dates are provided. The catalog data load is dated 19 September 2026; it does not certify current conditions. Dictionary codes: administrator 1 INVÍAS, 2 ANI, 3 Departmental concession, 4 FINDETER, 5 Disused roads, 6 INVÍAS agreements; carriageway 1 single, 2 dual, 3 not defined; category 1 first order, 2 second order, 3 third order, 4 not defined; surface 1 paved, 2 unpaved, 3 not defined. These attributes do not establish operation, accessibility or completion of works. “Por Defnir” is retained as published by the source and means not defined. A section code can repeat: row identifiers distinguish records, not unique assets. An empty response only means that this query returned no records. INVÍAS and GeoSAT adaptation CC BY-SA 4.0. | No dataset-wide date declared; check individual recordsSource checked: | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Display transformations and adaptations are described for each source; precision and methods differ between sources. Obtain official mapping if you need surveying accuracy or documents with administrative validity.