Uruguay GIS data sources
- Region
- South America
- ISO 3166
- UY · URY
- Sources
- 8
- Themes
- 11
- Last verified
Where to download GIS data for Uruguay: 8 sources across 11 themes, led by AGESIC and Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales de Uruguay. 3 offer vector downloads such as Shapefile, GeoPackage or GeoJSON, 1 covers elevation including LiDAR. 3 are under an open licence. Every link was last checked on 18 Oct 2026.
Country atlases
- Uruguay in the LiDAR & elevation atlas Partial open LiDAR
- Uruguay in the aerial & satellite imagery atlas National open imagery
National and OpenStreetMap sources for Uruguay
Boundaries & admin 2
Administrative boundary data for every country-
IDE Uruguay datos (opens in a new tab)
Download Cost: FreeInfraestructura de Datos Espaciales de Uruguay (IDEuy)
National orthophotos (32 cm and 10 cm urban), DEMs and base cartography produced by IDEuy's national imagery programme.
- Boundaries & admin
- Elevation / DEM
- Imagery
- Addresses & cadastre
Verified
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geoBoundaries administrative boundaries (opens in a new tab)
API Cost: FreeWilliam & Mary geoLab
JSON API listing every available admin level with direct download links.
- Boundaries & admin
Verified
Land cover 1
Land cover datasets for every country-
MapBiomas Uruguay land cover collection (opens in a new tab)
Download Cost: FreeMapBiomas 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
Verified
Population 1
Gridded population data for every country-
High-resolution population density maps – Uruguay (opens in a new tab)
Download Cost: FreeMeta Data for Good / CIESIN (via HDX)
Roughly 30 m gridded population estimates derived from building detection, with age and sex breakdowns.
- Population
Verified
Census & statistics 1
Census and statistics data for every country-
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (opens in a new tab)
Portal Cost: FreeInstituto Nacional de Estadística
National statistics office; census results and census-segment vector maps are published on its site.
- Census & statistics
Verified
Transport 1
Road, rail and transport data for every country-
OpenStreetMap extract – Uruguay (opens in a new tab)
Download Cost: FreeGeofabrik / OpenStreetMap contributors
Daily OSM extract.
- Transport
- Boundaries & admin
- Hydrology
Verified
Open data portal 2
Open geospatial data portals for every country-
Catálogo de Datos Abiertos (opens in a new tab)
Portal Cost: FreeAGESIC
- Open data portal
Verified
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Visualizador IDE Uruguay (opens in a new tab)
Web viewer Cost: FreeIDEuy
National map viewer combining cadastre, addresses, roads and imagery from Uruguayan agencies.
- Open data portal
Verified
Global datasets that cover Uruguay
Worldwide and continental layers that include Uruguay, useful where national data is missing, restricted or inconsistent across borders.
- Boundaries & admin
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- GADM (opens in a new tab) GADM project · Non-commercial only · Free · Verified
- geoBoundaries (opens in a new tab) William & Mary geoLab · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Natural Earth (opens in a new tab) Natural Earth · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Elevation / DEM
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- ALOS World 3D 30 m (AW3D30) (opens in a new tab) JAXA · Open licence · Free with registration · Verified
- Copernicus DEM (GLO-30 / GLO-90) (opens in a new tab) ESA / Airbus (Copernicus) · Open licence · Free · Verified
- ETOPO 2022 Global Relief Model (opens in a new tab) NOAA NCEI · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Imagery
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- AlphaEarth Foundations Satellite Embeddings (annual, COG mirror) (opens in a new tab) Google and Google DeepMind (mirror by Taylor Geospatial on Source Cooperative) · Open licence · Free · Verified
- ASF Data Search (Vertex) (opens in a new tab) Alaska Satellite Facility · Provider terms / varies · Free with registration · Verified
- Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (opens in a new tab) European Space Agency / European Commission · Open licence · Free with registration · Verified
- Land cover
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- Copernicus Global Dynamic Land Cover (CGLS-LC100) (opens in a new tab) Copernicus Land Monitoring Service · Open licence · Free with registration · Verified
- Dynamic World (opens in a new tab) Google / World Resources Institute · Open licence · Free · Verified
- ESA CCI Land Cover (opens in a new tab) European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Buildings
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- Google Open Buildings (opens in a new tab) Google Research · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Google Open Buildings 2.5D Temporal (opens in a new tab) Google Research · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Microsoft Global ML Building Footprints (opens in a new tab) Microsoft · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Population
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- Global Human Settlement Layer (opens in a new tab) European Commission JRC · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Gridded Population of the World (GPWv4) (opens in a new tab) CIESIN, Columbia University / NASA SEDAC · Open licence · Free with registration · Verified
- Kontur Population (opens in a new tab) Kontur · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Census & statistics
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- UNdata (opens in a new tab) UN Statistics Division · Open licence · Free · Verified
- World Bank Open Data (opens in a new tab) World Bank · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Addresses & cadastre
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- OpenAddresses (opens in a new tab) OpenAddresses · Provider terms / varies · Free with registration · Verified
- Transport
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- BBBike custom OSM extracts (opens in a new tab) BBBike.org · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Geofabrik downloads (opens in a new tab) Geofabrik · Open licence · Free · Verified
- GRIP global roads database (opens in a new tab) PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (GLOBIO) · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Hydrology
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- Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) (opens in a new tab) Copernicus Emergency Management Service / ECMWF · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC) (opens in a new tab) Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG), Germany / WMO · Provider terms / varies · Free · Verified
- HydroBASINS (opens in a new tab) WWF / McGill University (HydroSHEDS) · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Environment
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- GBIF occurrence API (opens in a new tab) Global Biodiversity Information Facility · Provider terms / varies · Free with registration · Verified
- Key Biodiversity Areas (opens in a new tab) KBA Partnership / BirdLife International · Non-commercial only · Free with registration · Verified
- OpenAQ (opens in a new tab) OpenAQ · Provider terms / varies · Free with registration · Verified
- Open data portal
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- Registry of Open Data on AWS (opens in a new tab) Amazon Web Services · Provider terms / varies · Free · Verified
- Humanitarian Data Exchange (opens in a new tab) UN OCHA · Provider terms / varies · Free · Verified
- Source Cooperative (opens in a new tab) Radiant Earth · Provider terms / varies · Free · Verified
Tutorials that use this kind of data
- Getting started with GeoPandas: projections, spatial joins and choropleth maps Beginner
- Terrain analysis in Python: stream, clip and analyse a DEM with rasterio and rioxarray Intermediate
- Measuring Lake Mead's shrinking shoreline with Sentinel-2, STAC and Python Intermediate
- Land cover classification in Python: a Sentinel-2 random forest with scikit-learn Intermediate
Neighbouring countries
- Brazil GIS data 18 sources · shares a border
- Argentina GIS data 14 sources · shares a border
- Paraguay GIS data 7 sources
- Chile GIS data 11 sources