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Political District Boundaries of Michoacán, Mexico, 1899

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Identification Information

Citation
Title
Political District Boundaries of Michoacán, Mexico, 1899
Creation Date
2020-07-01
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
mapDigital
Abstract
The map depicts the 15 districts the state of Michoacán was divided into in the year 1899. Each of the districts also shows 1888 population data, the municipalities found within the district circa 1888, and the number of communities that were presented hijuelas during the reparto. District boundaries were based on those drawn by Antonio García Cubas in 1899.
Purpose
Shapefile containing the district boundaries of Michoacán in 1899, towards the end of the privatization of indigenous corporate land holdings (officially known as the reparto de tierras). The district boundaries are made of 15 contiguous polygons.
Bounding Box
West
-103.684145
East
-100.079584
North
20.393475
South
17.98414
ISO Topic Category
boundaries
society
structure
Place Keyword
Michoacán, Mexico
Place Keyword Thesaurus
Temporal Keyword
19th century, 1899
Theme Keyword
Libros de Hijuelas, 1719-1929
Reparto de Tierras
Liberal Privatization of Indigenous Land
Indigenous History of Mexico
Purépecha
Michoacán
Mexico--Politics and government--Nineteenth-century Liberalism
Mexico--History--Dissolution of Corporate Land Holdings
Mexico--History--Agrarian History
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
Maintenance and Update Frequency
asNeeded
Language
eng
Credit
García Cubas, Antonio, 1832-1912 (Original Historical Map Creator); Erard, John D. (Polygon Creator), Palacios, Albert A. (Data Processing); Shensky, Michael (Data Processing)
Point of Contact
Contact
LLILAS Benson Digital Scholarship
Position Name
Research Unit
Email
llilasbensondigitalscholarship@gmail.com

Spatial Reference Information

Reference System Identifier
Code
4326
Code Space
EPSG
Version
6.14(3.0.1)

Data Quality Information

Lineage
Statement
The polygons were created by tracing the district boundaries on a georeferenced 1899 map of Michoacán from the Mapoteca Orozco y Berra in ArcGIS Pro. The district boundaries lifted off of the georeferenced 1899 map were then checked against the point locations of communities in that district during the period. In several places the polygons were then re-shaped to account for communities that did not fall within their district--maintaining real world validity. The “name,” “population,” and “municipali” fields were derived from Antonio Cubas’ 1888 Diccionario Geográfico, Histórico y Biográfico de Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. This data comes from the Benson Latin American Collection and is part of the Archivo General e Histórico del Poder Ejecutivo de Michoacán collection.

Distribution Information

Format Name
Shapefile
Format Version
1
Online Access
Protocol
Name

Spatial Representation Information

Vector
Topology Level
geometryOnly
Vector Object Type
composite
Vector Object Count
15

Metadata Reference Information

Hierarchy Level
dataset
Metadata File Identifier
Metadata Date Stamp
2021-09-17
Metadata Standard Name
ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Metadata Standard Version
2007
Character Set
utf8
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