Download Geographic Data on Various Topics Provided and Managed by the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Peru

Introducction

This package provides R users with a new way to access Peru’s official cartographic data on various topics that are managed by the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Peru.

Working with R

library(geoidep)
library(ggplot2)

Official Administrative Boundaries by INEI

departaments <- get_departaments(show_progress = FALSE)

names(departaments)
#> [1] "id"           "OBJECTID"     "CCDD"         "NOMBDEP"      "SHAPE_Length"
#> [6] "SHAPE_Area"   "geom"

# Display the first 10 rows of the data frame `departaments`
head(departaments)
#> Simple feature collection with 6 features and 6 fields
#> Geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
#> Dimension:     XY
#> Bounding box:  xmin: -79.45857 ymin: -17.28501 xmax: -70.80408 ymax: -2.986125
#> Geodetic CRS:  WGS 84
#>   id OBJECTID CCDD   NOMBDEP SHAPE_Length SHAPE_Area
#> 1  1        1   01  AMAZONAS    13.059047   3.199147
#> 2  2        2   02    ANCASH    11.788249   2.954697
#> 3  3        3   03  APURIMAC     7.730154   1.765933
#> 4  4        4   04  AREQUIPA    17.459435   5.330125
#> 5  5        5   05  AYACUCHO    17.127166   3.643705
#> 6  6        6   06 CAJAMARCA    12.540288   2.688386
#>                             geom
#> 1 MULTIPOLYGON (((-77.81399 -...
#> 2 MULTIPOLYGON (((-77.64697 -...
#> 3 MULTIPOLYGON (((-73.74655 -...
#> 4 MULTIPOLYGON (((-71.98109 -...
#> 5 MULTIPOLYGON (((-74.34843 -...
#> 6 MULTIPOLYGON (((-78.70034 -...

Simple Visualization

ggplot() + 
  geom_sf(data = departaments) +
  theme_minimal()