How to use the map of Cartagena de Indias
Explore land uses from the 2001 land-use plan and land classification published by the Cartagena District. Compare neighborhoods, communal government units and public space as territorial context. The district includes rural and island areas alongside the urban area.
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Cartagena’s official parcel consultation uses cadastral references; these are not Medellín’s CBML. GeoSAT does not locate parcels by cadastral reference or verify property registration identifiers. Use official MIDAS and Planning channels for parcel identification and land-use opinions.
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Your first query
Centro and Manga · latitude, longitude: 10.418, -75.546
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Cartagena de Indias · Public query
Land and uses
Explore land-use categories attributed by the source to the 2001 plan, adopted through Decree 0977 of 20 November 2001. Compare land classification and subcategories in the district service.
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Land and uses
Land classification and published uses from the 2001 plan
Open on the map ↗Area uses and neighborhoods
Planning categories alongside neighborhoods and communal units
Open on the map ↗Public space and neighborhoods
Published inventory and territorial context at local scale
Open on the map ↗Movements recorded by SGC
Historical inventory by area · type and subtype
Open on the map ↗IGAC territorial divisions
Territories around Cartagena de Indias · name, code and legal reference
Open on the map ↗RUNAP protected areas
Rosario coral reefs and surroundings · category, authority and dates
Open on the map ↗UPRA agricultural frontier
Rural context around Cartagena de Indias · 1:100,000 scale, municipalities and codes
Open on the map ↗Fixed internet accesses by segment · 2023-Q3
199,070 reported accesses for Cartagena de Indias · historical MinTIC reference, without address-level coverage
Open on the map ↗Dwellings with and without water supply · 2018 Census
233,964 dwellings with water supply in Cartagena de Indias · DANE 2018 census counts and sum of categories; not current availability
Open on the map ↗Electricity, sewerage, gas and internet · 2018 Census
246,542 dwellings with electricity in Cartagena de Indias · four DANE 2018 census services with separate counts and bases; not current availability
Open on the map ↗INVÍAS road alignments and attributes
Routes around Cartagena de Indias · section, administrator, carriageway and surface codes; generalized mapping
Open on the map ↗ANI bridges and INVÍAS toll stations
Road records around Cartagena de Indias · names, projects and sections; operation not verified
Open on the map ↗Population aged 5–16 by year
MEN / DANE 2011–2024 series for Cartagena de Indias · estimated people across the municipality; not enrollment or school places
Open on the map ↗Public, private and mixed IPS sites
Municipal REPS counts for Cartagena de Indias at 12 March 2026 · registered sites by legal nature
Open on the map ↗File codes and minerals published in RUCOM
Count of 15 distinct file codes associated with Cartagena de Indias in the ANM copy · does not locate mines or certify current operation
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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 |
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| Land uses · 2001 planDistrito de Cartagena de Indias · Secretaría de Planeación · public district ArcGIS publication Land-use categories and codes from the 2001 plan, according to the official publication description. Area in hectares is retained as text as published. This is not an official land-use opinion and does not declare a regulatory update in 2025. | No dataset-wide date declared; check individual recordsSource checked: | Public consultation; publisher does not specify a reuse license |
| Land classificationDistrito de Cartagena de Indias · Secretaría de Planeación · public district ArcGIS publication Official domain codes are retained: 01 (rural), 02 (urban) and 03 (urban expansion), with their subcategories. Complete polygons can include island areas outside the urban view. The source declares no overall date or applicable act per record; confirm regulations with the Planning Department. | No dataset-wide date declared; check individual recordsSource checked: | Public consultation; publisher does not specify a reuse license |
| Neighborhoods and communal unitsDistrito de Cartagena de Indias · Secretaría de Planeación · public district ArcGIS publication Records cite Decree 0977 of 2001 and Agreement 006 of 2003 where published. These are not parcel boundaries or current certification of administrative membership. Visible-area queries limited to 500 records and 2 MiB. Intersecting polygons retain their complete geometry; filters and statistics describe loaded records. Catalog publication or modification in 2025 does not turn the 2001 plan into a 2025 regulation. | No dataset-wide date declared; check individual recordsSource checked: | Public consultation; publisher does not specify a reuse license |
| Public-space inventoryDistrito de Cartagena de Indias · Secretaría de Planeación · Equipo POT 2023 Reference inventory with some unnamed records; it does not verify current access, maintenance, availability or implementation. Mention of 2023 inputs does not establish a common date for all records. Visible-area queries limited to 500 records and 2 MiB. Intersecting polygons retain their complete geometry; filters and statistics describe loaded records. Catalog publication or modification in 2025 does not turn the 2001 plan into a 2025 regulation. | No dataset-wide date declared; check individual recordsSource checked: | Public consultation; publisher does not specify a reuse license |
| Recorded mass movements · SGCServicio Geológico Colombiano · Grupo de Movimientos en Masa National historical inventory, not an alert or a current hazard map. The service publishes no occurrence or update date per record. Queries show points intersecting the visible area, which may include neighboring municipalities; this is not an exhaustive municipal count. Empty results do not establish absence of movements or risk. Confirm current conditions with the local authority. | No dataset-wide date declared; check individual recordsSource checked: | CC BY 4.0 |
| 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 |
| Registered protected areas · RUNAPParques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia · RUNAP; adapted by GeoSAT Copy of the official download retrieved on 5 October 2026 (Colombia), not a live query. Selected by bounding boxes within the query area: may include neighbors and polygons that do not intersect the selected point; not a municipal inventory. Enrollment and registration are RUNAP dates, not update, designation or public-opening dates. Overall data date not declared; missing-date markers NaT are omitted from the record. Components and rings are retained; geographic MAGNA coordinates rounded to five decimals for display (small rings retain original precision if rounding would collapse or reverse them), without geodetic adjustment or a guarantee of topological precision. Unsuitable for boundary surveys or precision measurement. Areas may overlap: do not add them or interpret an empty query as absence of protection. Confirm current acts, boundaries and conditions with the environmental authority. GeoSAT adaptation under CC BY-SA 4.0: credit Parques Nacionales, identify changes and retain the same license when redistributing adaptations. | No dataset-wide date declared; check individual recordsSource checked: | CC BY-SA 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 |
| Fixed internet accesses · 2023-Q3Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies · MinTIC; IGAC geometry; summed and adapted by GeoSAT Historical MinTIC reference for 2023-Q3, the latest quarter present in dataset n48w-gutb retrieved on 6 October 2026. Data load: 23 February 2024; not current connectivity. GeoSAT sums reported accesses by municipality and segment, without counting rows as subscribers. The total includes corporate, residential strata 1–6, unclassified and operator internal-use segments. A category with no rows contributes zero only to this published aggregate: it does not establish absence of service. These are accesses, not people, unique households, speed, quality or availability at an address. No penetration rate or population denominator is calculated. The outdated catalog description mentions 2015–2019; this query’s quarter comes from verified rows. The IGAC polygon represents the whole municipality, not the network or its coverage: moving the map does not allocate accesses to neighborhoods or parcels. Current reference geometry generalized to approximately 0.00017 degrees and six decimals, without reconstructing 2023 boundaries; unsuitable for areas or densities. MinTIC data and GeoSAT adaptation CC BY-SA 4.0; IGAC geometry CC BY 4.0. Metadatos MinTIC / MinTIC metadata ↗ Estadísticas oficiales actuales / Current official statistics ↗ | 2023-09-30Source checked: | CC BY-SA 4.0 · IGAC geometry CC BY 4.0 |
| Dwellings and water supply · 2018 CensusDepartamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística - DANE: www.dane.gov.co; IGAC geometry; adapted by GeoSAT Municipal counts from DANE’s 2018 National Population and Housing Census, for occupied dwellings with people present. The official layer’s categories with and without water supply service are preserved. Their sum is shown as dwellings classified in this publication; people, households, subscribers and all properties are not used as denominators. No rate is calculated and missing values are not replaced with zero. These are 2018 census responses, not current coverage, continuity, water quality or availability at an address. The IGAC polygon identifies the entire municipality: it does not map pipes or allocate dwellings to neighborhoods or parcels. Current reference geometry generalized to approximately 0.00017 degrees and six decimals, without reconstructing 2018 boundaries; unsuitable for area measurements or densities. Copy retrieved on 6 October 2026; the retrieval date does not update the census. DANE, IGAC geometry and GeoSAT adaptation CC BY 4.0. Método censal · p. 37 / Census method · p. 37 ↗ Licencia Geoportal DANE / DANE Geoportal license ↗ | 2018Source checked: | CC BY 4.0 |
| Housing services · 2018 CensusDepartamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística - DANE: www.dane.gov.co; IGAC geometry; adapted by GeoSAT Municipal DANE 2018 Census counts for occupied dwellings with people present. Each service retains its with/without counts and its own sum: electricity, sewerage, natural gas connected to the public network, and fixed or mobile internet. Bases differ; no common base is used and services are not added as unique dwellings. The gas layer only provides with/without counts although its dictionary allows “Not reported”; that category is not reconstructed by subtraction. No rates are calculated and nulls are not replaced with zero. These are historical census responses, without current address-level availability, quality or continuity. Dwellings with internet are not the accesses reported by operators to MinTIC. The current IGAC reference polygon identifies the entire municipality, not networks or individual dwellings; it neither reconstructs 2018 boundaries nor allocates counts to neighborhoods or parcels. Geometry generalized to approximately 0.00017 degrees and six decimals, unsuitable for areas or densities. Copies retrieved on 6 October 2026; that date does not update the census. DANE data, IGAC geometry and GeoSAT adaptation CC BY 4.0. Gas natural por red pública / Natural gas through the public network ↗ Internet fijo o móvil / Fixed or mobile internet ↗ Definición / Definition · Energía eléctrica / Electricity ↗ Definición / Definition · Alcantarillado / Sewerage ↗ Definición / Definition · Gas natural por red pública / Natural gas through the public network ↗ Definición / Definition · Internet fijo o móvil / Fixed or mobile internet ↗ Método censal · p. 37 / Census method · p. 37 ↗ Licencia Geoportal DANE / DANE Geoportal license ↗ | 2018Source checked: | CC BY 4.0 |
| 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 |
| Registered bridges · ANIAgencia Nacional de Infraestructura · ANI; adapted by GeoSAT ANI publishes the bridge's start coordinates: the point does not represent its alignment, length or entrance. Records may distinguish carriageways. Original territory names are retained; inconsistencies include department “Anual” for Cartagena and Cundinamarca for Bogotá. Do not use these fields to validate administrative boundaries. The catalog reports a data load on 2024-09-18 and a metadata change on 2026-05-18, without observation dates per bridge. Infrastructure records within the query area, including neighbors; not a complete municipal inventory or a navigation system. The sources do not provide a status that separates planned, under-construction and operational assets: a point does not establish completed or available infrastructure. No live traffic, closures, accessibility or current toll rates are included. Technical identifiers distinguish source rows, not parcels or unique assets. Catalog dates describe data loads and metadata changes, not inspections of each asset. Credit the respective authority and GeoSAT for the query-point adaptation; reuse under CC BY-SA 4.0. | No dataset-wide date declared; check individual recordsSource checked: | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Registered toll stations · INVÍASInstituto Nacional de Vías · INVÍAS; adapted by GeoSAT Uses the point geometry published by INVÍAS: the separate latitude/longitude columns contain zeros or discrepancies in many records. Administrator codes in the dictionary: 1 INVÍAS, 2 ANI, 3 Department, 4 Municipality and 5 District; these do not identify the contractual operator. Some toll stations have no code. Road sections also contain inconsistencies: BAZURTO (MANGA), located in Cartagena, is listed under “Puente Nacional - San Gil”. The published value is retained; do not use it to validate a route. The catalog reports a data load on 2026-09-19, without verification dates per station. Rates and phone numbers are omitted. Infrastructure records within the query area, including neighbors; not a complete municipal inventory or a navigation system. The sources do not provide a status that separates planned, under-construction and operational assets: a point does not establish completed or available infrastructure. No live traffic, closures, accessibility or current toll rates are included. Technical identifiers distinguish source rows, not parcels or unique assets. Catalog dates describe data loads and metadata changes, not inspections of each asset. Credit the respective authority and GeoSAT for the query-point adaptation; reuse under CC BY-SA 4.0. | No dataset-wide date declared; check individual recordsSource checked: | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Population aged 5–16 · MEN / DANEMinistry of National Education · DANE projections; IGAC geometry; adapted by GeoSAT DANE projected population aged 5–16, published by MEN for the whole municipality in 2011–2024. Estimated people, not enrollment, school places, measured school demand or internet availability. Copy retrieved on 5 October 2026 (Colombia); the catalog data load is dated 13 November 2025, not a single DANE release. The source does not document a uniform census basis across the series: differences between years may include methodological revisions and must not be attributed solely to demographic change. No rate or denominator is calculated. Codes are padded to five digits and thousands separators in 2021 counts are normalized; original values remain in the reference publication. Joined by code to the IGAC reference polygon: historical boundaries are not reconstructed and people are not allocated to neighborhoods or parcels. Geometry generalized by the service to approximately 0.000172 degrees and six decimal places; unsuitable for measurements or densities. MEN CC BY-SA 4.0; IGAC mapping CC BY 4.0; GeoSAT adaptation CC BY-SA 4.0. Diccionario MEN / MEN field definitions ↗ | No dataset-wide date declared; check individual recordsSource checked: | CC BY-SA 4.0 · IGAC geometry CC BY 4.0 |
| IPS sites by legal nature · REPSMinistry of Health and Social Protection · REPS; IGAC geometry; counted and adapted by GeoSAT GeoSAT count of distinct site habilitation codes in REPS, restricted to the healthcare institutions (IPS) class and grouped by site municipality and legal nature. Published cutoff: 12 March 2026; catalog data load: 17 April 2026; copy retrieved: 6 October 2026. The table also includes independent practitioners and other classes, which are excluded. These are registered sites, not unique institutions, hospitals, beds, available capacity, appointments or certification of current operation. No rate or denominator is used. An absent category is counted as zero only within the complete queried aggregate. No site locations are provided: the IGAC polygon represents the whole municipality; moving the map does not change the count or allocate it to neighborhoods. Reference geometry generalized to approximately 0.000172 degrees and six decimals, mapping date undeclared; unsuitable for area measurements or densities. No personal names, IDs, addresses or contacts are published. MinSalud data and GeoSAT adaptation CC BY-SA 4.0; IGAC geometry CC BY 4.0. Consult REPS to verify a specific provider. Consulta oficial REPS / Official REPS query ↗ Metadatos MinSalud / MinSalud metadata ↗ | 2026-03-12Source checked: | CC BY-SA 4.0 · IGAC geometry CC BY 4.0 |
| Published mining-title file codes · RUCOMNational Mining Agency · RUCOM; IGAC geometry; counted and adapted by GeoSAT GeoSAT count of distinct file codes associated with the municipality in ANM’s RUCOM mining-title publication. Copy retrieved on 6 October 2026; catalog data load: 18 March 2026, with no record cutoff date. Rows can repeat file codes by mineral or other attributes: each code is counted once per municipality. Do not sum municipalities to obtain a national total. This is not the complete mining-title cadastre, an inventory of operating mines or a production measurement. Inclusion in this copy does not certify current legal status, environmental authorizations or activity: verify the official file and RUCOM. Original mineral labels, including spelling variants, are retained; they are not a standardized classification. Holder names, personal IDs and contact details are excluded. No mining geometries are provided: the IGAC polygon identifies the whole municipality, not a title, plant or extraction area; moving the map does not allocate the count. Reference generalized to approximately 0.000172 degrees and six decimals, mapping date undeclared; unsuitable for area measurements or densities. ANM data and GeoSAT adaptation CC BY-SA 4.0; IGAC geometry CC BY 4.0. Diccionario ANM / ANM field definitions ↗ Preguntas oficiales RUCOM / Official RUCOM FAQ ↗ Consulta oficial RUCOM / Official RUCOM query ↗ | No dataset-wide date declared; check individual recordsSource checked: | CC BY-SA 4.0 · IGAC geometry CC BY 4.0 |
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