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Catamarca

First-level unit, Argentina: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-ARG-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO ARG / ARStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
473,865
people (GHSL 2025)
104,802 km²
area
1.1%
of Argentina
18
units inside

01Kaart

Inside Catamarca

The 18 ADM2 units of Catamarca.

FIG 1 · 18 units inside Catamarca
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

Mense · GHSL 2025

473,865

1.1% of Argentina.

Mense · WorldPop 2025

472,417

0% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

104,802 km²

5 people per km².

Code

AR-K

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

Catamarca in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2021-12-31

418,991

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

04Units

18 units inside Catamarca

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Ambato – 4,907 5,030 1,822.15 3 1.1% 0
Ancasti – 2,543 3,201 1,967.62 1 0.5% 0
Andalgalá – 21,800 19,220 4,776.4 5 4.7% 0
Antofagasta de la Sierra – 1,728 1,753 28,164.14 0 0.4% 0
Belén – 31,022 30,428 12,667.06 2 6.7% 0
Capayán – 18,764 19,180 4,349.07 4 4% 0
Capital – 182,567 174,067 399.2 457 39.2% 0
El Alto – 4,912 4,815 1,917.97 3 1.1% 0
Fray Mamerto Esquiú – 20,997 29,801 186 113 4.5% 0
La Paz – 26,398 26,076 8,294.76 3 5.7% 0
Molinos – 6,647 5,500 3,670.99 2 1.4% 0
Paclin – 4,555 4,689 986.33 5 1% 0
Poman – 12,577 11,811 5,523.81 2 2.7% 0
Santa María – 25,243 27,091 5,685.66 4 5.4% 0
Santa Rosa – 18,569 17,025 1,595.75 12 4% 0
Tafí del Valle – 16,863 20,510 2,458.34 7 3.6% 0
Tinogasta – 24,750 25,137 22,710.03 1 5.3% 0
Valle Viejo – 40,803 37,928 611.46 67 8.8% 0
05Exposure

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
142.2 H3 cells
Hawens
None at this resolution
Lughawens
None at this resolution
Major roads
1,038.2 H3 cells
Spoorweë
296.7 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06Risiko

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Catamarca publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Argentina.
07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08Bronne

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen ARG ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Wikimedia, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic · source · represents 2006
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen ARG ADM2, source: Instituto Geografico Nacional and UNHCR, OCHA ROLAC, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Lande
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.