IBGE codes and Legal Amazon identification of Brazilian municipalities

A dataset containing each municipality's IBGE code, state, mesoregion, microregion, as well as a binary variable for whether it is part of the Legal Amazon. Mostly for our functions' internal use.

municipalities

Format

A data frame with 5570 rows and 12 variables:

code_muni

IBGE 7-digit municipality code

name_muni

municipality name

code_state

2-digit state code

abbrev_state

state abbreviations (e.g. "AM")

name_state

full name of the states

code_region

1-digit regional code

name_region

name of the region

legal_amazon

takes value 1 for municipalities in the legal amazon, 0 otherwise

municipality_mapbiomas

municipality name in MAPBIOMAS data

code_micro

5-digit microregion code

name_micro

name of the microregion

code_meso

4-digit mesoregion code

name_meso

name of the mesoregion