Protected areas of Mexico

A very minimally simplified data set of protected areas in Mexico, for cartographic purposes. From CONABIO CONANP, (09/2024). 'Federal Protected Natural Areas of Mexico, September 2024', National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity. Mexico City, Mexico.

Usage

protected

Format

sf/tibble/dataframe, with a handful of variables briefly describing each locality.

name

Official name of the protected area.

date.established

Date that the preserve was established.

reserve.type

A locally created type categorizing reserves into four categories. 'Marine' and 'Terrestrial' (only) for area with 100% of their land surface categorized as either category, 'Primarily Marine' for areas with MORE marine than terrestrial areas and 'Primarily Terrestrial' for areas with MORE terrestrial than marine areas.

geometry

A simplified multipolygon geometry.

Examples

data(protected)

library(ggplot2)
ggplot() +
 geom_sf(data = protected, aes(fill = reserve_type)) +
 theme_minimal()