This function reads the official data on the municipal seats (sede dos municipios) of Brazil. The data brings the geographical coordinates (lat lon) of municipal seats for various years between 1872 and 2010. Original data were generated by Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).

read_municipal_seat(year = 2010, showProgress = TRUE)

Arguments

year

Numeric. Year of the data in YYYY format. Defaults to 2010.

showProgress

Logical. Defaults to TRUE display progress bar.

Value

An "sf" "data.frame" object

Examples

# Read municipal seats in an specific year
m <- read_municipal_seat(year = 1991)