SICAR (Rural Environmental Registry)¶

About¶

The National Rural Environmental Registry System (SICAR) is the mandatory electronic registry of every rural property in Brazil, under Law 12.651/2012 (Forest Code). Administered by the Brazilian Forest Service (SFB), the system holds more than 7.4 million properties registered across 27 states.

The CAR includes information about:

Rural property identification
Registration status (Active, Pending, Suspended, Cancelled)
Total area in hectares
Fiscal modules
Property type (Rural, Settlement, Indigenous Land)
Municipality and IBGE code

Access via WFS¶

agrobr accesses the SICAR GeoServer WFS directly, with no need for CAPTCHA or authentication. The OGC WFS protocol allows standardized queries with server-side filters (CQL_FILTER) and transparent pagination.

Endpoint: https://geoserver.car.gov.br/geoserver/sicar/wfs

Available fields¶

Field	Type	Description
cod_imovel	string	Unique property code (UF-IBGE-hash)
status	string	AT (Active), PE (Pending), SU (Suspended), CA (Cancelled)
data_criacao	datetime	Registration creation date
data_atualizacao	datetime	Last update (nullable)
area_ha	float	Total area in hectares
condicao	string	Registration condition (nullable)
uf	string	State abbreviation
municipio	string	Municipality name
cod_municipio_ibge	int	Municipality IBGE code
modulos_fiscais	float	Number of fiscal modules
tipo	string	IRU (Rural), AST (Settlement), PCT (Indigenous Land)

Notes¶

Incremental update: imoveis(), imoveis_geo() and imoveis_geo_stream() accept atualizado_apos (CQL data_atualizacao>'...', ISO date or datetime) to fetch only records updated after a given date. The filter is applied server-side only: the data_atualizacao column is not returned by the WFS (it comes back empty in the result). Unavailable in SP, RS, PR, SC, RJ and TO — the data_atualizacao field does not exist in those state WFS layers
Geometry available: imoveis_geo() returns a GeoDataFrame with MultiPolygon polygons (EPSG:4326) via WFS GeoJSON. Requires pip install agrobr[geo]. Max 5,000 features per request
Transparent pagination: large queries are paginated automatically (10,000 records per page)
Extended timeout: 180s read timeout for states with many records (BA, MG, MT)
SSL: the CAR GeoServer uses a legacy cipher suite that rejects the standard TLS handshake. The client uses a custom SSLContext with @SECLEVEL=1 to enable compatible ciphers.
EUDR relevance: data essential for compliance with the EU Deforestation Regulation

License¶

Open data from the Brazilian federal government. Available via the gov.br CKAN portal. License: CC-BY — free use with attribution to the source.