METADATA FOR MORE SAMPLE LAYERS
(click on shapefile name to view htm text file):

NATURAL RESOURCES:

hydrological line features

hydrological area features

all land uses by parcel

 

The México Indígena team processes most of the data it collects into geographic shapefiles with attribute tables.

Some shapefiles began as existing INEGI data layers, which MI extends and corrects through participatory mapping. Other shapefiles, such as community and some property boundaries, are created from archival research, mainly at RAN offices.

On this page below we give the metadata for a representative sample of layers.

Some shapefiles display entirely new knowledge, from parcel and community questionnaires, participatory GPS locating of natural resources and community-defined land tenure areas, as well as indigenous toponyms (place names).

In our project GIS database, we also include comparable, recent national-scale data we have collected and processed.

Much of this data is accessible through the on-line GIS.



GENERAL CATEGORY:
NATURAL RESOURCES
(from participatory mapping)

SAMPLE LAYER:
Hydrological point features in Huasteca study area communities

CLICK HERE FOR BASIC METADATA FOR THIS SHAPEFILE

 

GENERAL CATEGORY:
Property boundaries with LAND TENURE attributes (from archival research and participatory mapping)

SAMPLE LAYER:
Formal and informal land tenure change since PROCEDE in Huasteca study area, by parcel

CLICK HERE FOR BASIC METADATA FOR THIS SHAPEFILE

 

GENERAL CATEGORY:
PROCEDE
progress in communities throughout Mexico, with CENSUS data attributes

SAMPLE LAYER:
Percentage of indigenous speakers in 2000 for all counties (municipios) in Mexico and percentage of communities surveyed by the land privatization program PROCEDE up to April 2005

CLICK HERE FOR BASIC METADATA FOR THIS SHAPEFILE

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LAND TENURE :

formal and informal land tenure change since PROCEDE by parcel

PROCEDE tenure class zones (incl. subcategories of common use areas)

ownership class (ejidatario or posesionario) by parcel

communal work performed by parcel owner

how parcel was acquired

how parcel boundary is marked

 

PROCEDE PROGRESS:

communities (nucleos agrarios) surveyed by PROCEDE before April 2005, for several states

percentage indigenous language speakers by localidad (community)

 

Local infrastructure and other CULTURAL FEATURES (from participatory mapping):

roads and trails

archaeological sites

cemeteries



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