Cartographic display and construction of information database on electric infrastructure in Central America

Abstract

We present a cartography that visualizes an exhaustive spatial database of the electrical power infrastructure of Central America, which include generation plants greater than 5 MW, transmission lines, and some associated megaprojects.

Designed and developed by the Geocomunes Collective in collaboration with social organization, this cartography and its associated database are the starting point for a collaborative mapping project. The objective of this research is to provide an information database that aims at strengthen the capacity of local communities in Central America and the population in general to discuss, argue, monitor, and demand accountability mechanisms. A social capability that we consider highly needed in a global context of privatization of strategic common goods, such as power supplies, where the State has ceded to the global market its capacities of management and decision making