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Magdalena

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
1,277,935
people (GHSL 2025)
23,127 km²
area
2.5%
of Colombia
30
units inside

01نقشہ

Inside Magdalena

The 30 ADM2 units of Magdalena.

FIG 1 · 30 units inside Magdalena
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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.

People · GHSL 2025

1,277,935

2.5% of Colombia.

People · WorldPop 2025

1,571,415

+23% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

رقبہ

23,127 km²

55 people per km².

کوڈ

CO-MAG

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

211,166

people on land at or below 10 m, 16.5% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Magdalena 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

1,502,519

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

People in need · 2025-12-08

2,058,508

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

04Units

30 units inside Magdalena

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 کوڈ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Algarrobo – 12,648 20,648 407.94 31 1% 0
Aracataca – 84,559 96,778 1,747.88 48 6.6% 0
Ariguaní – 32,673 26,290 1,136.36 29 2.5% 0
Cerro De San Antonio – 12,481 27,625 177.95 70 1% 10,801
Chivolo – 17,154 22,501 538.33 32 1.3% 0
Ciénaga – 72,991 112,657 1,329.73 55 5.7% 22,680
Concordia – 7,565 11,329 109.78 69 0.6% 4,514
El Banco – 24,928 43,792 818.36 30 1.9% 0
El Piñón – 8,309 13,318 559.37 15 0.6% 1,267
El Retén – 20,631 35,709 263.46 78 1.6% 1,618
Fundación – 16,130 35,940 976.04 17 1.3% 0
Guamal – 30,464 34,389 566.15 54 2.4% 0
Nueva Granada – 13,274 22,180 845.49 16 1% 0
Pedraza – 11,545 17,649 326.49 35 0.9% 5,261
Pijiño Del Carmen – 12,721 12,946 663.63 19 1% 0
Pivijay – 37,782 30,004 1,646.9 23 2.9% 24,633
Plato – 51,780 58,430 1,463.38 35 4% 11,107
Pueblo Viejo – 36,938 47,230 678.8 54 2.9% 21,526
Remolino – 8,540 15,922 596.95 14 0.7% 8,486
Sabanas De San Angel – 15,220 11,502 1,244.56 12 1.2% 0
Salamina – 6,197 14,834 171.09 36 0.5% 6,137
San Sebastian De Buenavista – 18,175 26,897 439.65 41 1.4% 0
San Zenón – 11,070 21,919 269.76 41 0.9% 0
Santa Ana – 33,705 45,078 1,125.81 30 2.6% 0
Santa Bárbara De Pinto – 11,813 13,558 496.5 24 0.9% 53
Santa Marta – 534,518 602,730 2,357.93 227 41.7% 35,353
Sitionuevo – 79,526 51,824 975.55 82 6.2% 65,343
Tenerife – 6,998 11,624 494.17 14 0.5% 1,517
Zapayán – 2,803 8,709 354.94 8 0.2% 365
Zona Bananera – 48,418 82,621 448.13 108 3.8% 3,974
05زد

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
بندرگاہیں
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
444.4 H3 cells
Railways
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
142.5 H3 cells
06خطرہ

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08ماخذات

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.
ممالک
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.