Centro de Estudos da Metrópole

Elaborated under the coordination of geographer José Donizete Cazzolato, the files presented here originate from databases made available on the IBGE website in 2005. In successive editions, these files were updated and improved with the use of new databases that IBGE made available. (especially the census tracts 2010) as well as images posted on the internet (such as Google Earth) and other sources of information. Many adaptations of the municipal boundaries to the shoreline shortages have been made, shifting them, in certain cases, from the axis of bays or canals, which resulted in polygons more adjusted to the actual territorial territorial contours. Detailed information can be checked in the dictionary that integrates the rar file