Susana Lastarria-Cornhiel, Grenville Barnes (1995):
Assessment of the Praedial Property Registration System in Peru

D. Failure to Link Registration and Cadastral Information

There are many claims that one of the advantages of the Registro Predial over the Registro de Propiedad Inmueble is that the former is based on a cadastre. At this time, however, there is no cadastre in the Registro Predial (nor in the Registro de Propiedad Inmueble). There are survey plans which have entered the Registro Predial as part of the required information for a particular transaction and some of this data have been computerized, but there is no integrated cadastre supporting the registry data.

The Graphics Section of the Informatics Department is currently creating digital plans from manual cadastral plans. This is done by manual digitizing as well as through the use of AutoCad. Where possible, they make use of the dimensions given on the plans. The fact that two 486 personal computers and two trained individuals are dedicated to this work seems to indicate that it is a relatively high priority in the Registro Predial. No general index map is kept of what has been digitized or what is planned, though a record book of work completed is maintained. There is also no technical manual defining the procedures to be followed.

In general, the approach seems to be one that relies entirely on the software available, and the personnel in the Graphics Section appeared to be weak on such fundamental topics as coordinate systems and map projections. There also does not seem to be any strategic plan or conceptual design for the integration of the textual registry data and the graphic data from the cadastral plans. Everyone in the Registro Predial recognizes this weakness and is in favor of integrating this and creating a cadastre, but we were unable to find any plan for this move.