Mesh of Enumeration Areas and Intramunicipal  Divisions

It is a set of files that portrays the Enumeration Areas and the Political-Administrative Division of Brazil, updated for the 2017 Census of Agriculture.

The Mesh of Enumeration Areas contains the basic territorial units of collection: the enumeration areas. The enumeration areas are made up of continuous polygons, entirely contained in urban or rural areas, whose size, number of households and establishments allow the enumerator to carry out his activities within a specified period, respecting the schedule of activities. Each enumaeration areas has an identifying number, called a geocode. It is formed by recomposing the political-administrative hierarchy to which the enumeration area belongs: the first two digits refer to the state code; the subsequent five are related to the municipality; the next two indicate the district; the next two point to the subdistrict; and, finally, the last five to the enumeration area.

The Political-Administrative Division of Brazil contains the defining polygons for municipalities, districts and subdistricts, represented in vector format in shapefile and kml files. It is important to emphasize that the Municipal Mesh used in the Census of Agricuture of 2017 is the one that represents the municipal borders updated in 2016.