The Andean Glacier and Water Atlas

Tropic of Cancer

Population and water risk in Andean countries

Caracas

10ºN

Georgetown

GUYANA

Paramaribo

VENEZUELA

SURINAME

Bogota

FRENCH GUIANA

COLOMBIA

Equator line

Quito

ECUADOR

PERU

BRAZIL

10ºS

Lima

BOLIVIA

Brasília

Sucre

20ºS

PARAGUAY

Tropic of Capricorn

Asunción

30ºS

URUGUAY

Population in the Andean countries by administrative unit (city, town, village...) Thousands people, 2020 estimates

Santiago

8.130 (Bogota) 5.000 1.000 100 50

Montevideo

Buenos Aires

ARGENTINA

40ºS

Water risk*

Extremely high Low Low to medium Medium to high High

CHILE

*includes 12 global indicators: BaselineWater Stress, Inter-annualVariability, SeasonalVariability, Flood Occurrence, Drought Severity, Upstream Storage, Groundwater Stress, Return Flow Ratio, Upstream Protected Land, Media Coverage, Access toWater,Threatened Amphibians.

50ºS

60ºS

Source: Gassert, F., M. Landis, M. Luck, P. Reig, and T. Shiao. 2014.“Aqueduct Global Maps 2.1.”Working Paper. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, accessed February 2018; Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University. 2017

GEO-GRAPHICS / GRID-Arendal 2018