Instituto de Colonização e Terra Maranhão-Iterma

Name

Instituto de Colonização e Terra Maranhão-Iterma

Legal name

Instituto de Colonização e Terra Maranhão

Website

https://iterma.ma.gov.br

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Iterma is a Maranhão state government institute responsible for land colonization and land management in the state of Maranhão, Brazil, serving the public-sector land administration mandate under the Government of the State of Maranhão with a 24-person staff.

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Product category

Government Land Administration

NAICS

Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development (925), Administration of Urban Planning and Community and Rural Development (92512)

SIC

Land Subdividers & Developers (No Cemeteries) (6552)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAIANAH

Land Administration & Cadastral Services (Public Land Records, Parcel Management)

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Housing, Urban Planning & Community Development

SECONDARYBPAIAAAJ

Public Property & Asset Management (Federal Buildings, Fleet, Land)

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Central/Federal Government Administration

Keywords

• Land colonization services
• Land management services
• State government agency
• Agrarian land administration
• Public land registry

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Core offering

Iterma is a state government institute responsible for land colonization and land management in the state of Maranhão, Brazil. The institute administers state land tenure, oversees colonization programs, and manages agrarian land affairs on behalf of the Government of the State of Maranhão. Its official web portal is currently suspended in compliance with Brazilian Federal Electoral Law (Lei Federal nº 9.504/1997) for the 2026 electoral period.

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Technology focussed No

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Direct peers

• INTERPA — Instituto de Terras de Mato Grosso: Mato Grosso's state land institute, performing colonization, regularization, and rural land administration. Directly comparable to Iterma in scope and structure as a state-level 'Instituto de Terras' in Brazil.
• ITER — Instituto de Terras do Estado do Pará: State-level land institute of Pará, one of the closest functional peers to Iterma. Both entities perform state-bounded land colonization, regularization, and cadastral management, differing mainly by jurisdiction within the same Brazilian legal and policy framework.
• ITESP — Instituto de Terras do Estado de São Paulo: São Paulo's state land institute responsible for land titling, settlement programs, and cadastral administration. A direct functional peer to Iterma because both are state-level 'Instituto de Terras' entities executing comparable colonization and land-regularization mandates.
• ITCG — Instituto de Terras, Cartografia e Geociências do Paraná: Paraná's state institute for land, cartography, and geosciences. Comparable to Iterma because it combines land administration with cartographic/geospatial functions — a common evolution path for Brazilian state land institutes and a useful benchmark for Iterma's potential digitization roadmap.

Others

• IBGE — Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística: Brazil's federal statistics and geography agency. Comparable to Iterma as an adjacent public-sector data and geospatial authority; IBGE's territorial and cadastral datasets are routinely consumed by state land institutes like Iterma for regularization work.
• SIGEF — Sistema de Gestão Fundiária (INCRA): Federal land management system operated by INCRA for georeferenced parcel certification. Directly comparable to the function Iterma would need to deliver digitally at the state level, and a key interoperation partner (or competitor) for Iterma's titling outputs.
• CAR — Cadastro Ambiental Rural (federal system): Federal Rural Environmental Cadastre, the national registry of rural properties. Iterma depends on and interoperates with CAR for land tenure regularization; the relationship is enabling/regulatory rather than competitive but materially shapes Iterma's operating environment.

Broad incumbents

• INCRA — Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária: Brazil's federal land reform and colonization institute. Directly comparable to Iterma because it performs the same colonization, land titling, and agrarian reform functions at the federal level, while Iterma operates as the Maranhão state-level counterpart within the same statutory framework.

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