Structure and Functions

Structure

The current structure of the Directorate-General of the National Geographic Institute is contained in Article 16 of Royal Decree 253/2024, of March 12(new window will open) which develops the basic organisational structure of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, configuring it as a management body attached to the Under-Secretariat of the Department and integrated by the following bodies with the rank of Deputy Directorate Generales:

  • Secretariat General.
  • Subdirectorate General for Astronomy and Geodesy.
  • Subdirectorate General for Cartography and Earth observation.
  • Subdirectorate General for monitoring, Warning and Geophysical Surveys.
  • National Centre for Geographic Information (CNIG), an autonomous agency with the rank of Subdirectorate General attached to the Directorate-General of the IGN.

Additionally, the Directorate General of the IGN (through the CNIG) depends operationally on a series of territorial units (organically dependent on the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Function) called Regional Services, established in the various Autonomous Regions within the Government Delegations. Furthermore, the Geophysics Centre of the Canary Islands adds to its own functions those of a Regional Service, and the Regional Service of Catalonia extends its scope to the Balearic Islands.

Mapa de España. Instalaciones del IGN-CNIG

Organisational Chart

By clicking on each box you can consult the contact information and the functions assigned to each of the governing bodies as well as the contacts of the Regional Services.

Organigrama del CNIG
       

Functions

Royal Decree 308/2022, which establishes the basic organic structure of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility and includes in its article 16 the functions and competences entrusted to the Directorate General of the IGN.

To see the functions assigned to this Directorate-General, please consult this document.