This repository contains spatial data representing protected areas of Chile.
According to the IUCN, a protected area is defined as “an area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biological diversity, and of natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means” (1, 2). The data in this repository tries to capture an up-to-date set of these areas in Chile.
This dataset is released under a CC BY 4.0 license.
Please see the sources folder for input sources used to create this dataset.
Coordinate Reference System: WGS 84 (EPSG:4326).