Protected Areas (Colombia)
This layer delineates Colombia's officially designated protected areas and indigenous lands.
Category: Transition risks · Sensitive areas · Protected areas Coverage: Country (Colombia) Format: Boundary polygons (national / sub-national) Used in risk analysis: No (contextual layer; not used in materiality scoring)
What it shows
This layer delineates Colombia's officially designated protected areas and indigenous lands. Operating in or near these areas carries heightened regulatory, reputational and ecological sensitivity, so the layer helps flag sites that overlap with conservation designations or recognised indigenous territories.
How it is built
The layer combines two official Colombian government sources. The National Single Registry of Protected Areas (RUNAP), managed by the Ministry of Environment (MADS), supplies all national and regional conservation categories — national parks, forest reserves, regional management districts and civil-society reserves among them. To this it adds indigenous resguardos from the National Land Agency (ANT) wherever those are not already captured by RUNAP, avoiding double counting. The result is a set of boundary polygons covering the full range of national designations.
How to read it
This is a boundary layer rather than a graded scale. A site that falls inside, or close to, any protected-area or indigenous-resguardo polygon is flagged as intersecting a sensitive area. The conservation category indicates the nature and strictness of the designation.
Source
RUNAP/MADS (National Single Registry of Protected Areas, Ministry of Environment) and ANT (National Land Agency, indigenous resguardos), Colombia.
Comparison with the WWF Risk Filter Suite
This layer corresponds to BRF S14_1 Protected/Conserved Areas. The WWF Risk Filter Suite relies on the global World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA, UNEP-WCMC via IBAT); Darwin instead assembles Colombia's own official datasets, which can extend and localise coverage — including indigenous resguardos — beyond what the global database holds.
Generated from darwin/layers/layer-protected-areas-colombia.toml and risk_indicator_pairs.toml (develop).