Paraguay — Active Cadastral Parcels
Active cadastral parcels, parcelas activas, from the Servicio Nacional de Catastro. 2,192,890 polygons, downloaded 17 July 2026.
The image shows parcel density over all 2,192,890 rows, binned from the bbox covering column. The sparse west is the Chaco, where parcels are large. The dense southeast is the Región Oriental. It is an overview of where the parcels are, not a rendering of their boundaries.
What Is In It
One GeoParquet 1.1 file, EPSG:4326, ZSTD, 44 row groups, a bbox covering column, 227,046,889 bytes.
Parcels by department, over all rows: L 625,210, K 322,064, D 218,172,
H 195,289, F 125,765, and the rest.
There Is No Unique Identifier
Measured over all 2,192,890 rows:
None of these identifies a row. Any join on them fans out, and COUNT(*)
counts geometries rather than parcels. 577,996 rows carry a nro_matricula,
across 261,266 distinct values, so that does not identify a row either.
This is the case the catalog's front page warns about: for parcel-level supply chain analysis the unique identifier is the most important field, and here it is missing.
obs And clave_comparacion
obs is uncontrolled free text copied from the source registry. 886,763 of
2,192,890 rows are not blank. It follows no vocabulary and does not parse.
The same text repeats as the last pipe-delimited field of clave_comparacion
in 822,579 rows. A query that drops obs still returns the text through
clave_comparacion. Handle the two columns together.
Provenance And Licence
Producer: Servicio Nacional de Catastro, under the Ministerio de Economía y
Finanzas. The layer is snc:parcelas_activas on the SNC's own GeoServer,
reachable through the
SNC cadastral viewer.
Reprojected to EPSG:4326. No row was filtered and no attribute was renamed or
dropped.
The SNC publishes no licence and no terms of use for this layer. Its
GeoServer capabilities carry unedited defaults. The layer is not listed on
datos.gov.py, so Paraguay's national open data licence under Decreto 4064
and Ley 5282/2014 does not attach to it.
The collection therefore declares other, not an SPDX identifier. Attribute
the Servicio Nacional de Catastro. If you need a licence warranty, ask them.