The Future of the Cadastre in Honduras
Alain Adalberto Paz Quesada
Honduras is a country located in Central America, with a territorial extension of 112,492 km², divided
into 18 departments, which include 298 municipalities. This territorial distribution combined with a
varied municipal categorization is one of the fundamental factors to understand the situation of the
Cadastre in the country and its challenges.
If we add to the aforementioned situation the lack of understanding of land administration usually
held by municipal mayors, it is possible to understand why most of the Cadastral Offices in the municipalities do not have the technical and economic support required to comply with the requirements of the Law of Municipalities and the Property Law. In the first case, the municipalities are obliged to establish the urban and rural cadaster of their municipal jurisdiction, and to prepare a
Land Use Plan (planning instrument) of the urban areas. In the second case, the cadasters carried out by municipalities must comply with the standards, particularly tolerances, defined in the Property Law’s Cadastral Measure Regulation.
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