The state of the multipurpose cadastre and how well the National Government is fulfilling its promise to update this issue as much as possible before its mandate ends in 2026, is one of the topics that has been mentioned the most this week, after several alerts about delays and little progress in the matter were known.
Specifically, it has been the Attorney General’s Office and the Comptroller’s Office, who have revealed that there is only progress in 73 municipalities, which represents 8,846,926 hectares (urban and rural areas), out of a total of 114 million that the country has and it is still very far from the 70% that is the goal.
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If we take into account that there are 1,102 municipalities in Colombia, the data from the Comptroller’s Office show that the progress is 6.62%, when, as already said, the goal for the next four years was to bring it above the levels already mentioned.
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This week a statement from the Institute was also known Geographic Agustín Codazzi, who through an official statement addressed the complaints and indicated that he is currently operating in cadastral updating processes with a multipurpose approach in 177 municipalities, which correspond to 50.7% of the Colombian territory, involving 57.8 million of hectares, with estimated closures between 2024 and 2025.
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“According to the advances in territory, the projection that the Institute has to end this term is 19% of the national territory with updated cadastral bases, a very significant advance, taking into account that this Government received only 9.4% of updated property territorial information of the country”they noted.
On the other hand, this entity stated that the implementation of the multipurpose cadastre policy as a consolidation of the peace agreement will allow, at the beginning of 2025, 89% of the municipalities defined as centers of Comprehensive Rural Reform by the Ministry of Agriculture and Development Rural, have updated information and a reduction of lag in their cadastral values.
Likewise, they are pointing out that about 22% of the municipalities included in the Development Programs with a Territorial Approach (PDET) will be updated, covering about 8.4 million hectares. In this way, they were emphatic that they hope that the country will soon know the results of its commitment to update the country’s cadastre.
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“The National Government has proposed that, by 2026, 70% of the Colombian territory has updated cadastral information under a multipurpose approach. This is a challenge that seeks to obtain high-quality, reliable and accurate information, useful for planning and territorial ordering, legal security of properties, Comprehensive Rural Reform, environmental conservation, disaster risk management, strengthening fiscal of the territories, the closing of historical gaps of inequality and the guarantee of the right to access to land, among other objectives”they highlighted.
Gustavo Marulanda, general director of Igac, added that for the implementation of the multipurpose cadastre policy, in addition to the massive generation of geodetic, cartographic and agrological inputs required for all municipalities in cadastral operation; Progress has also been made in the area of cadastral registry interrelation.
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As a result of this, and through the SICRE information system, these two bases have been interrelated in more than 3.9 million registration pages, allowing the automation of cadastral procedures in 324 municipalities in the country.
“This Government has demonstrated its political will to advance the multipurpose cadastral update, strengthening the Institute to play its role as a national geographic, cartographic, agrological, geodetic and cadastral authority. “We are delivering for the country”explained the official.
Marulanda Morales closed by remembering that “during the past year And so far this term, the Institute has committed a total of $864.1 billion pesos exclusively in investment projects of the General Budget of the Nation (PGN), reaching an average of close to 80% annual execution in the projects. of the institute, and we will continue working to deliver quality, accurate and useful geospatial information for the country”.
The Igac noted that during the last two years, the Nation has allocated close to $1 billion as part of the investment budget for its work, of which $864.1 billion have been effectively committed.
“Compared to the budget executions from 2020 to 2022, the capacity to commit results-oriented resources has quadrupled and has allowed the materialization of quality geographic products for the country. as well as support for the cadastral operation that is being carried out”they concluded.
