The geobr package in R is probably the easiest and fastest way to download shapefiles and official spatial data sets of Brazil. The package includes a wide range of geospatial data available at various geographic scales and for various years with harmonized attributes, projection and topology.
You can find a simple tutorial on how to use the package here.
You can find a simple tutorial on how to use the package here.
The new release of geobr v1.1 includes 19 data sets:
- country
- region
- state
- meso region
- micro region
- intermediate region
- immediate region
- municipality
- weighting area
- census tract
- statistical grid
- urban areas
- health facilities
- indigenous land
- conservation units
- biomes
- legal Amazon
- semiarid
- disaster risk areas
