Update of Municipal Maps

Description

The "Update of Municipal Maps" (1) refers to Municipal Maps of the Municipalities that have had their borders updated somehow. These updates have not reached all the Brazilian municipalities, so that maps have not been produced for all of them.

Municipal Maps represent the intramunicipal Political Administrative Division (districts and subdistricts), intermunicipal and interstate borders and the main planimetric elements and hydrography elements.

The Municipal Maps annually produced by the IBGE consider the updated status of the Brazilian Political and Administrative Division (DPA). The dynamics of DPA reflects the updates in the municipal borders of the municipalities, within the Technical Cooperation Agreements (ACT) between the IBGE and state bodies in charge of the Political Administrative Division.

The territory updates occur as a result of one of the following factors: publication of a new law, legal decision and technical reports issued by the respective state bodies in charge of the political-administrative division of each state and sent to the IBGE. However, we explain the most common factors are cartographic adjustments following technical reports produced by the States and the publication by the State of a new law that updates municipal borders.

The versions of 2012 to 2019 update the collection of the 2010 Census Municipal Statistical Maps:
https://www.ibge.gov.br/geociencias/cartas-e-mapas/mapas-municipais/27440-mapas-municipais-para-fins-estatisticos.html

And the versions between 2021 and 2022 update the collection of the 2020 Municipal Maps:
https://www.ibge.gov.br/geociencias/cartas-e-mapas/mapas-municipais/31452-colecao-de-mapas-municipais.html

Note(1): The publication "Update of Municipal Maps" went into effect as a new version of "Municipal Maps of Population Estimates"

About the publication - 2024

The territory updates of municipal borders based on analyses derived from the Technical Cooperation Agreements established between the IBGE and other state bodies in charge of the Political Administrative Division – DPA, consider the submissions from these bodies to the IBGE between May 01 2023 and April 30 2024, which became part of the “Digital Municipal Map 2024”.

The list of municipalities with change in borders can be found in the document: Digital Municipal Maps and Territorial Areas 2024: Technical and Legal Information of the Use of Published Data, available from:
https://biblioteca.ibge.gov.br/index.php/biblioteca-catalogo?view=detalhes&id=2102169

The table below shows the number of municipalities in each state going through border updates.

FEDERATION UNIT	NO. OF UPDATED MUNICIPALITIES
CE	30
RN	3
PE	2
AL	2
BA	4
MG	13
PR	13
SC	35
RS	56
MS	20
MT	12
TOTAL	190

Municipal Maps have the purpose of supporting the visualization of the geographical configuration of borders defined by state institutions that are officially responsible for the Political Administrative division, besides current territory structures with which the IBGE will support field operations in the steps of Data Collection, Processing, Tabulation, Statistics and Geographical Analysis and Dissemination, associated with Household Surveys, Annual Population Estimates and Censuses fulfilling the IBGE mission, besides the geographical characterization . Therefore, the IBGE sees that these maps have been developed for exclusive use in data collection activities and statistical tabulation of the IBGE, and not for other purposes. The IBGE is not responsible for its use for any other purposes.

Municipal borders represented herein must not be considered as demarcations or official characterizations. Municipal Maps of the IBGE must not be used as a legal instrument for the definition, location, demarcation or the public registry of real estate or to define the position of any types of urban facility, of the division of municipal soil resulting in the administration of IPTU, TSU, ITBI, ISSQN or any other fiscal or territorial planning instrument, or used for the definition, control or possession of teeitories or the subordination of rural or urban real estate, director plans, processes for the approval of lots of land, processes for the administration of registries, of fiscal or socioeconomic types, pipelines, plants, airports, antennas, oil wells, mining areas, wind energy towers, toll, fiscal points and any other commercial or industrial buildings or facilities.

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