Cadastral management in the rural zones of Colombia: an opportunity for the territorial development

Abstract

Rural areas in Colombia are the ones that have suffered the most historically because of the armed conflict present in the territory for more than 50 years. The distribution of land, measured by the Gini coefficient, places Colombia as the fifth most unequal country in the world, which has led to the correlation of the inequitable distribution of the legal property of the land with the persistent high poverty figures in the countryside. The formation, updating and cadastral conservation allow to obtain information of the territory that serves for the prioritization of investment in rural areas. Additionally, the cadastral management allows an increase in municipal revenues thanks to an increase in the unified property tax, progressive tax - to more land property, plus tax payment - that allows a targeted investment that allows the improvement of the social conditions of the rural population in Colombia.