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Cesar

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

Page GRX-COL-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO COL / COStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
1,153,114
people (GHSL 2025)
22,708 km²
area
2.2%
of Colombia
25
units inside

01Kaart

Inside Cesar

The 25 ADM2 units of Cesar.

FIG 1 · 25 units inside Cesar
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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

1,153,114

2.2% of Colombia.

Mense · WorldPop 2025

1,490,675

+29% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

22,708 km²

51 people per km².

Code

CO-CES

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Laagliggende kussone

7

people on land at or below 10 m, 0.0% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Cesar 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 · 2025-12-31

1,393,782

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

People in need · 2025-12-08

1,913,500

humanitarian need. OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle Tools (HPC Tools) · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

04Units

25 units inside Cesar

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Aguachica – 84,484 126,705 881.38 96 7.3% 0
Agustín Codazzi – 39,158 72,477 1,759.55 22 3.4% 0
Astrea – 14,961 22,569 640.55 23 1.3% 0
Becerrill – 10,562 30,428 1,229.97 9 0.9% 0
Bosconia – 34,779 50,959 588.64 59 3% 0
Chimichagua – 23,895 34,194 1,382.16 17 2.1% 0
Chiriguaná – 13,712 36,490 1,118.24 12 1.2% 0
Curumaní – 17,882 47,297 919.48 19 1.6% 0
El Copey – 19,963 37,352 960.33 21 1.7% 0
El Paso – 17,861 50,273 817.61 22 1.6% 0
Gamarra – 12,516 12,940 328.11 38 1.1% 0
Gonzalez – 2,290 4,928 73.19 31 0.2% 0
La Gloria – 7,238 12,119 806.32 9 0.6% 0
La Jagua De Ibirico – 15,964 55,910 758.99 21 1.4% 7
La Paz – 16,714 29,848 1,076.93 16 1.5% 0
Manaure Balcón Del Cesar – 13,824 11,777 137.52 101 1.2% 0
Pailitas – 14,309 20,206 533.8 27 1.2% 0
Pelaya – 15,397 24,898 425.03 36 1.3% 0
Pueblo Bello – 21,537 31,946 746.65 29 1.9% 0
Río De Oro – 38,777 59,207 551.83 70 3.4% 0
San Alberto – 24,259 32,547 552.93 44 2.1% 0
San Diego – 10,976 26,456 648.9 17 1% 0
San Martín – 15,949 26,793 997.38 16 1.4% 0
Tamalameque – 11,919 17,837 515.82 23 1% 0
Valledupar – 652,452 612,924 4,202.21 155 56.7% 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
30.6 H3 cells
Hawens
None at this resolution
Lughawens
None at this resolution
Major roads
657 H3 cells
Spoorweë
241.6 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
90 H3 cells
06Risiko

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08Bronne

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen COL ADM1, source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen COL ADM2, source: Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · 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.