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Canelones

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

Page GRX-URY-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO URY / UYStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
497,593
people (GHSL 2025)
4,525 km²
area
16.4%
of Uruguay
30
units inside

01Map

Inside Canelones

The 30 ADM2 units of Canelones.

FIG 1 · 30 units inside Canelones
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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

497,593

16.4% of Uruguay.

People · WorldPop 2025

515,476

+4% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Indawo

4,525 km²

110 people per km².

Ikhowudi

UY-CA

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

63,502

people on land at or below 10 m, 12.8% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Canelones 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 · 2023-12-31

625,697

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

04Units

30 units inside Canelones

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.

Unit Ikhowudi People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
18 de Mayo – 9,532 9,973 9.12 1,045 1.8% 0
Aguas Corrientes – 2,155 2,400 50.91 42 0.4% 486
Atlántida – 7,844 7,002 115.23 68 1.5% 2,594
Barros Blancos – 61,426 65,389 22.96 2,675 11.6% 4,492
Canelones – 29,825 32,694 230.99 129 5.6% 354
Ciudad de la Costa – 65,532 64,001 62.21 1,053 12.4% 20,829
Empalme Olmos – 6,613 6,817 116.94 57 1.3% 20
La Floresta – 3,023 2,888 53.21 57 0.6% 166
La Paz – 1,007 1,007 38.86 26 0.2% 20
Las Piedras – 68,725 75,222 48.96 1,404 13% 0
Los Cerrillos – 8,225 9,063 264.23 31 1.6% 907
Migues – 4,534 4,801 369.65 12 0.9% 0
Montes – 2,188 1,925 53.62 41 0.4% 0
Nicolich – 16,228 15,511 24.4 665 3.1% 0
Pando – 18,261 19,839 114.37 160 3.5% 1,035
Parque del Plata – 5,107 4,881 12.07 423 1% 0
Paso Carrasco – 42,305 40,435 23.42 1,806 8% 15,862
Progreso – 31,558 33,175 85.25 370 6% 68
Salinas – 34,503 32,516 76.3 452 6.5% 7,905
San Antonio – 3,502 3,708 170.19 21 0.7% 0
San Bautista – 4,881 5,305 192.38 25 0.9% 0
San Jacinto – 7,052 8,016 313.59 22 1.3% 0
San Ramon – 7,399 7,417 228.48 32 1.4% 0
Santa Lucía – 21,193 22,769 248.35 85 4% 6,803
Santa Rosa – 6,824 7,608 197.87 34 1.3% 0
Sauce – 14,370 15,487 301.32 48 2.7% 0
Soca – 8,684 8,105 497.3 17 1.6% 1,278
Suárez – 11,272 11,793 43.93 257 2.1% 0
Tala – 10,560 11,307 528.94 20 2% 0
Toledo – 14,133 14,786 30.19 468 2.7% 0
05Ukuchaphazeleka

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
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Railways
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06Umngcipheko

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08Imithombo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen URY 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 URY ADM2, source: geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2013. Offered under the same licence (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
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.
Amazwe
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.