The México Indígena team processes most of the data it collects into geographic shapefiles with attribute tables.

Some shapefiles began as existing INEGI data layers, which MI extends and corrects through participatory mapping. Other shapefiles, such as community and some property boundaries, are created from archival research, mainly at RAN offices.

On this page below we give the metadata for a representative sample of layers.

Some shapefiles display entirely new knowledge, from parcel and community questionnaires, participatory GPS locating of natural resources and community-defined land tenure areas, as well as indigenous toponyms (place names).

In our project GIS database, we also include comparable, recent national-scale data we have collected and processed.

Much of this data is accessible through the on-line GIS.