Just to be clear...

This ain't a website that I enjoy visiting, it's actually a site that I MUST visit, at least this last months, 4 times a week minimum. You may think this is exagerated, but considering all the things they ask us to do in workshop, and all the data that you can get from this website in a very clear, fast and organised way, you will understand it all.


The site it's call Observatorio Urbano (urban observatory)

(you can imaging what this is all about)


The site it's supported by the MINVU (ministry of housing and urbanism) and was made for the distribution in the most effective and simple way possible of the data collected for the INE (nacional institute of estadistic).

Surfing through the different areas you can find information of population data, urban planning, georeferences, norms and documents of the ministry, and links to related sites

Of this options, the ones that I visit more often are "Instruments of Planification" and "Urban Indicators". The fisrt one mainly looking for the Master plan, sectional or regulatory plan, of a determined area or city. Urban indicators is by far more interesting because you have a lot more data where to choose (considering all the data that the government collect in census and stuff like that), from numbers of people in a determined area, city, or even block, to the percent of a determined quintil (of social indicators) inside a determined area, city or block.
All this, from every city in every region of the whole country.

Now that you know what this site is all about, and how accurate and fast you can collect a otherwise impossible data, you realize why I visit this site that much.
even though I don't actually "enjoy" visiting it, I do like it a lot. at the end of the day, it makes my life a little easier =)