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Norte de Santander

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
1,193,719
people (GHSL 2025)
21,881 km²
area
2.3%
of Colombia
40
units inside

01Ramani

Inside Norte de Santander

The 40 ADM2 units of Norte de Santander.

FIG 1 · 40 units inside Norte de Santander
Inapakia ramani

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

1,193,719

2.3% of Colombia.

Watu · WorldPop 2025

1,583,768

+33% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

21,881 km²

55 people per km².

Code

CO-NSA

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

Norte de Santander 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

1,673,562

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

People in need · 2025-12-08

2,361,115

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

04Units

40 units inside Norte de Santander

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
Abrego – 32,244 28,326 1,388.38 23 2.7% 0
Arboledas – 4,251 5,463 457.81 9 0.4% 0
Bochalema – 2,374 5,429 170.69 14 0.2% 0
Bucarasica – 2,547 7,022 271.88 9 0.2% 0
Cáchira – 9,515 7,827 618.06 15 0.8% 0
Cácota – 1,459 4,879 139.45 10 0.1% 0
Chinácota – 17,230 24,785 166.9 103 1.4% 0
Chitagà – 7,877 10,103 1,189.36 7 0.7% 0
Convención – 9,217 12,707 935.14 10 0.8% 0
Cúcuta – 521,728 635,728 1,137.02 459 43.7% 0
Cucutilla – 6,342 8,048 376.77 17 0.5% 0
Durania – 2,090 5,364 175.69 12 0.2% 0
El Carmen – 9,689 9,480 1,734.86 6 0.8% 0
El Tarra – 6,987 27,501 706.84 10 0.6% 0
El Zulia – 24,679 47,532 506.78 49 2.1% 0
Gramalote – 3,262 6,338 149.65 22 0.3% 0
Hacarí – 9,124 11,177 420.62 22 0.8% 0
Herrán – 2,827 7,206 107.68 26 0.2% 0
La Esperanza – 7,703 11,465 672.57 11 0.6% 0
La Playa – 5,609 8,721 242.81 23 0.5% 0
Labateca – 2,355 6,193 256.67 9 0.2% 0
Los Patios – 10,491 11,882 128.17 82 0.9% 0
Lourdes – 2,997 6,224 87.12 34 0.3% 0
Mutiscua – 2,499 4,727 159.39 16 0.2% 0
Ocaña – 71,517 103,691 524.79 136 6% 0
Pamplona – 46,912 41,972 299.36 157 3.9% 0
Pamplonita – 3,654 5,089 171.68 21 0.3% 0
Puerto Santander – 11,138 11,033 44.87 248 0.9% 0
Ragonvalia – 5,742 8,562 98.23 58 0.5% 0
Salazar – 5,908 8,569 495.73 12 0.5% 0
San Calixto – 8,367 13,411 399.67 21 0.7% 0
San Cayetano – 4,078 16,118 139.65 29 0.3% 0
Santiago – 1,712 3,495 173.34 10 0.1% 0
Sardinata – 18,587 26,375 1,473.06 13 1.6% 0
Silos – 2,689 7,325 317.88 8 0.2% 0
Teorama – 26,209 19,672 930.79 28 2.2% 0
Tibú – 23,505 63,574 2,688.75 9 2% 0
Toledo – 13,639 21,638 1,485.12 9 1.1% 0
Villa Caro – 4,212 5,395 402.53 10 0.4% 0
Villa Del Rosario – 241,252 313,351 90.86 2,655 20.2% 0
05Mfiduo

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
None at this resolution
Bandari
None at this resolution
Viwanja vya ndege
None at this resolution
Major roads
730.6 H3 cells
Reli
87.5 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
201.3 H3 cells
06Hatari

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08Vyanzo

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.
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.