San Juan de Los Morros in context: Street-network sprawl trends

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with San Juan de Los Morros plotted against Guárico and Venezuela. The SNDi of new construction in San Juan de Los Morros peaked in 1991-2005, compared to Guárico which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Venezuela which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, San Juan de Los Morros's incremental SNDi fell from 6.06 to 4.66 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, San Juan de Los Morros ranked 4th out of 4 cities in Guárico and 58th out of 70 in Venezuela as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Cuauhtémoc, México
• Talegaon Dabhade, India
• Andulo, Angola
• Fengqiu, China
• Johi, Pakistan
• Conselheiro Lafaiete, Brazil

In new street additions, San Juan de Los Morros built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Cuauhtémoc fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Fengqiu built increasingly disconnected streets over time. Looking at the full network, Cuauhtémoc and Fengqiu both became progressively more disconnected, while San Juan de Los Morros grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved.