International GIS Data: Americas

Interactive mapping tool to research, analyze and manage environmental issues in Canada, United States and Mexico.

Produced by the Pan American Institute of Geography and History. A large collection of environmental datasets.

Shapefiles related to soils, vegetation, fire, sawmills, land cover, mining, population, and precipitation.

Basemap shapefiles and DEMs for Antigua, Barbuda, St. Kitts, Nevis.

Distribution maps of vertebrates.

Open data site for the city. Look under Formatos: shp to find spatial data. In Spanish.

A warehouse for environmental and spatial data on Belize.

In Portuguese.

Roads, boundary files, demographic data, and more

Base data and satellite imagery in a variety of formats.

Information and data on natural resources in Canada from Energy and Forests to Hazards and the Environment.

Some shapefiles among other municipal data sets.

Requires registration. In Spanish.

"ShapeFiles Censo 2010" (3/27/2015). Download as an .rar archive file. Site in Spanish.

Parish-level census boundaries, from the Instituto Geografico Militar and available for download via Tufts. Search for additional Ecuadorian datasets at GeoData@Tufts.

Boundaries, volcanoes, in shapefile format.

Facilitates open access to Haiti-related geospatial information, data and knowledge sources

Gridded population data.

Mexico's official statistical agency distributes spatial data for a fee, though elevation data is available free of charge with registration (see the USGS for instructions in English.)

Boundaries, geologic features, soils.

State boundaries, place names, geographic coordinates of urban and metropolitan places, and elevation data for more than 700 urban places, with 1990 census data.

Geo-referenced yearly data at the municipal level on homicides reported in death certificates from 2006 to 2011. The certificates are issued by local offices of the Attorney General's Office.

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Open data catalog. Search for "shapefile." In Spanish.