Data: Boundary lines of historical territories of Spanish America, 1701-1808

Derived from the territorial polygon dataset (https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YPEU5E ), we produced line feature classes of the boundary lines between the bishoprics, provinces, jurisdictions, etc. The resulting files are smaller and do not include the coastline or inner frontiers. Therefore, they are better suited for cartographical representations of boundaries, while the polygon dataset is better suited for displaying data associated with the areas. There are always two lines for the same boundary, each holding the information of both neighboring entities. Each object has a chronological validity marked by the fields START and END_