INSPIRE Administrative units of Catalonia

Land boundaries of the Catalan municipalities in accordance with the Decree 244/2007 and the Royal Decree 3426/2000 about the territorial organization of Catalonia. The municipality boundaries forms the municipalities, which are the basic local entity of the territorial organization of Catalonia. This data set is conforming to the technical specifications of INSPIRE Administrative units.

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Date (Revision)
2025-12-03
Citation identifier
IDEC / inspire-unitats-administratives
Purpose

Generic information location and spatial frame for linking other information that belongs to other thematic fields within the INSPIRE Directive such as environment and socio-economic statistics.
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Cartographic and Geologic Institute of Catalonia

icgc@icgc.cat

Owner
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Keywords
High-value dataset categories
IDEC - llocs

  • Catalonia

  • Spain

  • Europe
Spatial Scope
IDEC - temes

  • INSPIRE

  • Hub litoral

  • SIDL
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Aggregate Datasetindentifier
divisions-administratives-v2r1-20250730
Association Type
Source
Aggregate Datasetindentifier
mapa-municipal-estat-v1r0-20250701
Association Type
Source
Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
5000
Language
Catalan; Valencian
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Boundaries
Description

Spatial extent covers all Catalonia. Temporal extent refers to the date of the source data.
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Unique resource identifier
Geographic ETRS89 (EPSG:4258)
Distribution format
Name Version
GML

3.2
Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Cartographic and Geologic Institute of Catalonia

icgc@icgc.cat

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
OGC API-Features https://geoserveis.ide.cat/servei/catalunya/inspire/ogc/features

INSPIRE OGC API Features download service
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
ATOM Syndication Format https://geoserveis.ide.cat/servei/catalunya/inspire-unitats-administratives/atom/inspire-unitats-administratives.atom.xml

INSPIRE ATOM Download Service
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
OGC Web Map Service https://geoserveis.ide.cat/servei/catalunya/inspire-unitats-administratives/wms?service=wms&request=GetCapabilities

INSPIRE WMS view service
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/id/document/tg/au

Technical specifications
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Domain consistency

Name of measure

Compliance with INSPIRE requirements (data)
Evaluation method description

The compliance of the data is evaluated using the "INSPIRE Reference Validator" web tool.

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2014-12-31
Explanation
Conformant
Pass
Yes

Domain consistency

Name of measure

Compliance with INSPIRE requirements (metadata)
Evaluation method description

The compliance of the metadata is evaluated using the "INSPIRE Reference Validator" web tool.

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2008-12-04
Explanation
Conformant
Pass
Yes

Domain consistency

Name of measure

Compliance with the Regulation on high-value datasets and publication and re-use modalities

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2023-01-20
Explanation
Conformant
Pass
Yes
Statement

Transformation of the Administrative boundaries of Catalonia and the State of the Municipal map of Catalonia to the INSPIRE model of Administrative Units.
Description

Administrative boundaries of Catalonia
Description

State of the Municipal map of Catalonia

Metadata

File identifier
inspire-unitats-administratives XML
Metadata language
Spanish; Castilian
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-12-18
Metadata standard name
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008
Metadata standard version

Technical Guidance for the implementation of INSPIRE dataset and service metadata based on ISO/TS 19139:2007. Version 2.1.1
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Spatial Data Infrastructure of Catalonia

idec@icgc.cat

Point of contact
Other language
Language Character encoding
Catalan; Valencian UTF8
Spanish; Castilian UTF8
English UTF8
 
 

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Spatial extent

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Administrative units
High-value dataset categories
Administrative units Geospatial
IDEC - temes
Hub litoral INSPIRE SIDL

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