TechnicalGIS

Argentina GIS data sources

Region
South America
ISO 3166
AR · ARG
Sources
14
Themes
12
Last verified

Where to download GIS data for Argentina: 14 sources across 12 themes, led by Instituto Geográfico Nacional and Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales de la República Argentina. 8 offer vector downloads such as Shapefile, GeoPackage or GeoJSON, 2 cover elevation. 8 are under an open licence. Every link was last checked on 18 Oct 2026.

Country atlases

National and OpenStreetMap sources for Argentina

Boundaries & admin 5

Administrative boundary data for every country

  • Instituto Geográfico Nacional (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    IGN Argentina

    • Boundaries & admin
    • Elevation / DEM
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    Shapefile, GeoTIFF
    Link
    ign.gob.ar

    Verified

  • Capas SIG (IGN Argentina) (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Instituto Geográfico Nacional

    National base layers at 1:250,000 and smaller: boundaries, roads, rail, hydrography and settlements.

    • Boundaries & admin
    • Transport
    • Hydrology
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    Shapefile, GeoPackage, WFS
    Link
    ign.gob.ar

    Verified

  • Argentina subnational administrative boundaries (COD-AB) (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    OCHA / HDX (IGN and UNHCR)

    Common Operational Dataset of admin boundaries with P-codes, sourced from IGN and UNHCR.

    • Boundaries & admin
    Licence
    CC BY 3.0 IGO
    Formats
    Shapefile, GeoJSON, File Geodatabase, XLSX
    Link
    data.humdata.org

    Verified

  • INDEC geographic codes and census cartography (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos

    Census geography codes and downloadable census radius (radios censales) cartography.

    • Boundaries & admin
    • Census & statistics
    Licence
    See publisher terms
    Formats
    Shapefile
    Link
    indec.gob.ar

    Verified

  • geoBoundaries administrative boundaries (opens in a new tab)

    API Cost: Free

    William & Mary geoLab

    JSON API listing every available admin level with direct download links.

    • Boundaries & admin
    Licence
    Varies (open; see metadata)
    Formats
    GeoJSON, Shapefile, TopoJSON
    Link
    geoboundaries.org

    Verified

Elevation / DEM 1

Free DEM, LiDAR and elevation data for every country

Imagery 1

Satellite and aerial imagery for every country

Land cover 1

Land cover datasets for every country

  • MapBiomas Argentina land cover collection (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    MapBiomas network

    Annual 30 m Landsat-based land cover and land-use maps since 1985; download via the platform or Google Earth Engine.

    • Land cover
    • Environment
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    GeoTIFF
    Link
    argentina.mapbiomas.org

    Verified

Population 1

Gridded population data for every country

Transport 1

Road, rail and transport data for every country

Geology 1

Geology data for every country

  • SIGAM (opens in a new tab)

    Web viewer Cost: Free

    SEGEMAR

    Geological, mining and environmental geoscience layers from the Argentine geological survey.

    • Geology
    Licence
    See publisher terms
    Formats
    Shapefile, WMS
    Link
    sigam.segemar.gov.ar

    Verified

Agriculture & soils 1

Agriculture and soil data for every country

  • GeoINTA (opens in a new tab)

    Portal Cost: Free

    INTA

    Agricultural soils, land cover and crop maps from INTA.

    • Agriculture & soils
    • Land cover
    Licence
    See publisher terms
    Formats
    Shapefile, GeoTIFF, WMS
    Link
    geo.inta.gob.ar

    Verified

Open data portal 2

Open geospatial data portals for every country

  • IDERA (opens in a new tab)

    Portal Cost: Free

    Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales de la República Argentina

    • Open data portal
    Licence
    Varies by dataset
    Link
    idera.gob.ar

    Verified

  • datos.gob.ar (opens in a new tab)

    Portal Cost: Free

    Government of Argentina

    • Open data portal
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Link
    datos.gob.ar

    Verified

Global datasets that cover Argentina

Worldwide and continental layers that include Argentina, useful where national data is missing, restricted or inconsistent across borders.

Boundaries & admin
Elevation / DEM
Imagery
Land cover
Buildings
Population
Census & statistics
Transport
Hydrology
Geology
Agriculture & soils
Environment
Open data portal

Browse all 127 global datasets

Tutorials that use this kind of data

Neighbouring countries