El Zorro 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 El Zorro plotted against Monagas and Venezuela. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, El Zorro's incremental SNDi rose from 5.43 to 6.97 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, El Zorro ranked 4th out of 4 cities in Monagas and 64th 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?

• Thiruvaiyaru, India
• Vélingara, Senegal
• Yegoryevsk, Russia
• Luling, China
• Lahar, India
• Collado Villalba, Spain

In new street additions, El Zorro and Luling both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Thiruvaiyaru built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, El Zorro fluctuated in connectivity, while Thiruvaiyaru became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards and Luling became progressively more disconnected. El Zorro and Luling have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.