municipalities: Azorean municipalities

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

Azorean municipalities

Description

municipalities() returns the boundaries of municipalities in the Azores.

municipalities_25N() returns the municipalities in the meter-based projection PTRA08 / UTM zone 25N, i.e. those municipalities in the western-most part of the archipelago: Ilha das Flores and Ilha do Corvo.

municipalities_26N() returns the municipalities in the meter-based projection PTRA08 / UTM zone 26N, i.e. those municipalities in the Central and Eastern groups of the archipelago.

Usage

municipalities(crs = laea_azores_proj())

municipalities_25N()

municipalities_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 municipality. Follows the format ⁠[DT][MN]⁠: DT is a two-digit id for the district and MN for the municipality.

municipality

Name of municipality.

district

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

area

Municipality area in hectares (ha).

perimeter

Municipality perimeter in kilometers.

n_parishes

Number of parishes in municipality.

Examples

municipalities()
municipalities_25N()
municipalities_26N()

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