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Description

The Urban Place GIS Coverage of Mexico is a vector based point Geographic Information System (GIS) coverage of 696 urban places in Mexico. Each Urban Place is geographically referenced down to one tenth of a minute. The attribute data include time-series population and selected census/geographic data items for Mexican urban places from from 1921 to 1990. The cartographic data include urban place point locations on a state boundary file of Mexico. This data set is produced by the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) in collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Geografia e Informatica (INEGI) and the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) of Michigan.

Product Summary

Platforms
MODELS
Instruments
Computer
Spatial Extent
N: 33 S: 14 E: -86 W: -117
Geographic Region
MEXICO
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1921-01-01 to 1990-12-31
Data Partner
Earth Science Data Information System (ESDIS)
Concept ID
c3540930113-esdis
Data State
COMPLETE
Processing Level
4
Published
Updated

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Center For International Earth Science Information Network-CIESIN. (1994). Georeferenced Population Datasets of Mexico (GEO-MEX): Urban Place GIS Coverage of Mexico (Version 1.00) [Data set]. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H4WW7FKN Date Accessed: 2025-07-01

Data Center Citation

Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN. 1994. Georeferenced Population Datasets of Mexico (GEO-MEX): Urban Place GIS Coverage of Mexico. Saginaw, MI: ESDIS. https://doi.org/10.7927/H4WW7FKN.

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