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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
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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
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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
- 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