Duaca in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Duaca in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Duaca plotted against Lara and Venezuela. While Lara and Venezuela both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Duaca's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Duaca's incremental SNDi rose from 4.12 to 4.6 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Duaca ranked 3rd out of 7 cities in Lara and 23rd out of 70 in Venezuela as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.6
- Rank in Venezuela
- 30th of 70
- Rank in Lara
- 3rd of 7
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.92
- Rank in Venezuela
- 23rd of 70
- Rank in Lara
- 3rd of 7
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Leninogorsk, Russia
- Caofeidian, China
- Tangará da Serra, Brazil
- Nueva Loja, Ecuador
- Paonta Sahib, India
- 盐官古城, China
In new street additions, Duaca and Nueva Loja both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Leninogorsk fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Duaca became progressively more disconnected, while Leninogorsk became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards and Nueva Loja grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Notably, Duaca had a more connected network than Leninogorsk in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.