Overview
Rural Land
This is a dataset of cadasters for rural land use analysis and supply chain analysis, intended to be used alongside datasets like Trazo for South American cadastral boundaries and Fields of The World (FTW) for other locations in the world.
Use case: For parcel-level, multi-parcel analysis — for example, supply chain sourcing — the unique ID column of each cadastral dataset is the most important field. In some cases, it is missing.
Uruguay Parcels and Trazo Fields
Uruguayan cadsatral parcels in black overlayed with upcoming 2025 Trazo4 agricultural fields.
Dataset Composition
Uruguay_PaisRural.parquet
The Uruguayan cadastral dataset, updated as of February 2, 2025.
NOMDEPTO: name of the department
Brazil_CAR_AREA_IMOVEL.parquet
The Brazilian cadastral dataset, updated as of July 16, 2026. Every geometry is an "Area do Imovel" of nom_tema, the name of the theme that makes up the registry (Permanent Preservation Area, Trail, Remnant of Native Vegetation, Restricted Use Area, Administrative Easement, Legal Reserve, Hydrography, Wetlands, Consolidated Rural Area, Areas with Altitude Higher than 1800 meters, Areas with Slopes Greater than 45 degrees, Hilltops, Plateau Edges, Fallow Area, Mangrove and Restinga). These other themes will be uploaded in subsequent releases and are important for Brazilian rural land use and environmental compliance.
cod_imovel: unique identifier of each cadastral geometrycod_estado: two-character state identifiermunicipio: name of the municipalitydes_condic: stage of cadastral normalization the cadaster is in — the condition of the registry in the analysis flow of the competent agency (see table below; this may be a good quality column)ind_tipo: type of rural property —IRU(Rural Property),AST(Agrarian Reform Settlements),PCT(Traditional Territory of Traditional Peoples and Communities)mod_fiscal: number of fiscal modules of the rural property
des_condic values
des_condic gives the administrative evaluation status of the CAR submission.
It is advisable to use polygons for supply chain analysis regardless of their administrative status review. In any reporting on this data, flag parcels that are labeled as "Caoncelado" but do not remove the geomtries, especially if no regularized geometry exists in that area. Omitting geometries, even when they may be under review, causes sourcing area omission.