districts: Azorean districts

In CAOP.RAA.2024: Official Administrative Map of the Azores (CAOP 2024)

Azorean districts

Description

districts() returns the boundaries of districts (islands) in the Azores.

districts_25N() returns the districts in the meter-based projection PTRA08 / UTM zone 25N, i.e. those districts in the western-most part of the archipelago: Ilha das Flores and Ilha do Corvo.

districts_26N() returns the districts in the meter-based projection PTRA08 / UTM zone 26N, i.e. those districts in the Central and Eastern groups of the archipelago.

Usage

districts(crs = laea_azores_proj())

districts_25N()

districts_26N()

Arguments

crs	Coordinate reference system (CRS) passed on to st_transform(). Defaults to a custom CRS centered on the Azores, see laea_azores_proj() for more details. Other possible options are "EPSG: 3035" for ETRS89-extended / LAEA Europe or "EPSG:4326" for WGS 84.

Value

A simple features (sf) object with six fields:

id

An unique identifier for the district. Follows the format ⁠[DT][MN][FR]⁠: DT is a two-digit id for the district, MN for the municipality and FR for the district (freguesia in Portuguese).

district

Name of the civil district.

municipality

Name of municipality.

district

Name of district, coincides with the name of the island.

area

District area in hectares (ha).

perimeter

District perimeter in kilometers.

n_municipalities

Number of municipalities in the district.

n_parishes

Number of parishes in the district.

Examples

districts()
districts_25N()
districts_26N()

CAOP.RAA.2024 documentation built on April 4, 2025, 4:23 a.m.