Date (Creation)

2025-11-20

Identifier

IDEC / demarcacions-sanitaries-v1r0-202511

Purpose

The main objectives of this geoinformation are: To provide institutions and interested individuals with territorial health information that is compatible and interoperable with different geographic information systems; To facilitate knowledge, by the public administration and citizens, of the geographical scope of the ABS, the sectors and health regions; To provide a reference base for the development of any activity that has a territorial impact and that must take the ABS into account; To enable the performance of operations and queries of analysis or territorial impact with other sets of geographic information data.

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Administrative units

IDEC - llocs

• Catalonia
• Spain
• Europe

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

No limitations

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Spatial representation type

Vector

Denominator

5000

Metadata language

Catalan; Valencian

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Boundaries
• Health

Description

Spatial extent covers all Catalonia. Temporal extent refers to the date of the data sources.

Unique resource identifier

ETRS89 UTM zone 31 North (EPSG:25831)

Distribution format

• SHP ()

OnLine resource

Data download

Access point

OnLine resource

Technical specifications

Access point

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

The basic health areas are delimited based on geographical, demographic, social and epidemiological factors and homogeneous communication routes, subject to the following criteria: a) As a general criterion, the basic health area will cover a population of between 5,000 and 25,000 inhabitants; b) Exceptionally, in urban areas and when the level of demographic density so requires, the aforementioned maximum limit may be exceeded up to 40,000 inhabitants; c) Likewise, in rural areas, basic health areas may be established that do not exceed the minimum limit of 5,000 inhabitants in those cases where demographic dispersion and the presence of geographical accidents so advise. In any case, the establishment of the territorial scope will seek to respect isochrones that do not exceed thirty minutes in the deployment from any point in the Area to the health center with the usual means of transport. The initial polygons come from the work carried out by the General Directorate of Health Planning of the Department of Health. The following cartographic sources are used to update and improve the precision of the polygon boundaries: Administrative Divisions of Catalonia (ICGC), 1:5,000 municipality layer; Street Database of Catalonia (ICGC), road layer; Land Infrastructure Graph of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya); Hydrographic Network of Catalonia (Catalan Water Agency). The health sectors are made up of a set of basic health areas, and in turn, the health regions are ordered by grouping health sectors.

Description

Administrative divisions of Catalonia (ICGC), layer of municipalities 1:5 000.

Description

Catalonia Streets Database (ICGC), road layer.

Description

Graph of terrestrial infrastructures in Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya).

Description

Hydrographic network of Catalonia (Catalan Water Agency).

File identifier

demarcacions-sanitaries-v1r0-202511 XML

Metadata language

Catalan; Valencian

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2026-02-18

Metadata standard name

IDEC profile of metadata of spatial datasets

Metadata standard version

Version 5.0