Argentina Shapefiles Free Download – Administrative Boundaries, Roads, Population and Water Data

Argentina shapefiles are now available for free download to support your GIS mapping, research, or academic projects. Whether you’re studying urban expansion in Buenos Aires, analysing Argentina’s transportation network, or mapping the country’s diverse provinces, these shapefiles provide the essential core layers—cleaned, clipped, and ready to use in QGIS, ArcGIS, and other GIS software.

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What’s Included in the Argentina Shapefile Package?

The Argentina shapefile package has been carefully curated and preprocessed to support your GIS analysis and map creation workflows. Each dataset is delivered in the widely supported .shp (shapefile) format and compressed into ZIP folders for convenient download and use.

Included in this package are key geospatial layers essential for studying and visualising Argentina’s geography:

Administrative Boundaries (ADM01 & ADM02)

National boundary (ADM01): The official outline of Argentina’s international borders.
First-level divisions (ADM02): Provinces and autonomous city boundaries, useful for regional studies and governance mapping.
Data sourced from GADM and Natural Earth for accuracy and completeness.

Road Network

Vector layers representing Argentina’s road infrastructure, including national highways, provincial routes, and major urban roads.
Derived from OpenStreetMap, offering detailed and reliable coverage.

Water Bodies

Layers for Argentina’s rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and coastal outlines.
Data sourced from Natural Earth, making it valuable for hydrology, environmental, and land-use planning projects.

Coordinate Reference System (CRS) Information

All shapefiles in this Argentina GIS data package are provided in the WGS 84 coordinate system, using the standard EPSG:4326 code.

WGS 84 (World Geodetic System 1984): Global reference system for latitude and longitude.
Widely compatible with QGIS, ArcGIS, Google Earth Pro, Mapbox, and most other GIS platforms.
Stores coordinates in decimal degrees, ensuring no CRS errors or misalignment issues.

If you need another projection (e.g., UTM Zone 21S for Argentina), you can easily reproject the shapefiles in QGIS or ArcGIS to fit your workflow.

Download Argentina Shapefiles

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Updated: September 2025

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Population Spatial Data for Argentina

Population data is not included in this shapefile package.
For high-resolution gridded population datasets, we recommend:

👉 WorldPop Argentina

These datasets provide spatially detailed estimates of population distribution across Argentina, broken down by grid cells. Ideal for urban planning, demographic studies, health research, and environmental modelling.

Format: GeoTIFF
Compatible with QGIS, ArcGIS, and other GIS tools.
License: CC BY 4.0

You can seamlessly combine WorldPop data with the Argentina shapefiles to visualise population density, settlement patterns, and growth trends.

Learn How to Use It

New to working with shapefiles? Don’t worry—we’ve got you covered. Our guides will help you get started:

👉 How to Use Shapefiles in QGIS

A free, open-source GIS tool perfect for students, researchers, and NGOs.

👉 How to Use Shapefiles in ArcGIS

A premium GIS platform widely used by professionals and institutions worldwide.

Looking for More Shapefiles?

f you need shapefiles beyond Argentina, our archive includes GIS data for countries across the globe—featuring administrative boundaries, roads, water bodies, and population datasets.

👉 Browse our full shapefile archive here

Can’t find the country you’re looking for? Contact us directly—we’ll be glad to help.
We also welcome collaborations—if you have cleaned or derived shapefiles and want to share them, let’s expand the archive together!