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Santa Cruz

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 / ARHali UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
424,001
people (GHSL 2025)
242,753 km²
area
1%
of Argentina
7
units inside

01Ramani

Inside Santa Cruz

The 7 ADM2 units of Santa Cruz.

FIG 1 · 7 units inside Santa Cruz
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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.

Watu · GHSL 2025

424,001

1% of Argentina.

Watu · WorldPop 2025

314,963

-26% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

242,753 km²

2 people per km².

Code

AR-Z

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Ukanda wa pwani ulio chini

37,820

people on land at or below 10 m, 8.9% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Santa Cruz 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

374,756

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

04Units

7 units inside Santa Cruz

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
Corpen Aike – 18,446 15,300 26,164.5 1 4.2% 2,441
Deseado – 176,603 122,655 62,959.48 3 40.3% 4,937
Güer Aike – 178,762 136,985 33,525.06 5 40.8% 30,684
Lago Argentino – 38,893 25,703 38,469.34 1 8.9% 0
Lago Buenos Aires – 14,329 12,880 28,458.64 1 3.3% 0
Magallanes – 2,290 2,370 20,262.38 0 0.5% 461
Río Chico – 8,698 5,870 33,863.24 0 2% 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
638.2 H3 cells
Bandari
3 H3 cells
Viwanja vya ndege
2 H3 cells
Major roads
4,555.7 H3 cells
Reli
187.3 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
1,321.3 H3 cells
06Hatari

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08Vyanzo

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.
Nchi
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.

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