Protected areas of Mexico

A very lightly 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

An sf tibble, with a handful of attributes briefly describing each protected area.

name

Official name of the protected area.

date_established

Date the preserve was established.

reserve_type

A locally defined category assigned to each reserve. Marine and Terrestrial are reserved for areas with 100pct of their surface in that category; Primarily Marine and Primarily Terrestrial are used for mixed areas, based on which surface type dominates.

geometry

A simplified multipolygon geometry.

Examples

data(protected)

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