Welcome to the CARTO Documentation Center! All of the resources you need to unlock the power of the platform.
CARTO is the only cloud-first spatial platform built for accelerated, modern GIS. It runs natively on top of your cloud data warehouse platform (e.g. Google BigQuery, Snowflake, AWS Redshift, Databricks, Oracle, etc.), providing easy access to highly scalable spatial analysis and visualization capabilities in the cloud — be it for analytics, app development, data engineering, and more.
CARTO unlocks the power of spatial analysis in the cloud, extending the visualization, analysis and development capabilities of the leading cloud data warehouse platforms, such as Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Oracle, and Amazon Redshift.
Find out how to get the most out of our Location Intelligence platform with our product documentation:
What is CARTO?
An introduction to our cloud-native platform benefits and its different components.
Quickstart guides
Step-by-step guides to build your first maps, workflows, and applications.
CARTO Academy
Access detailed tutorials, videos and templates to learn more about geospatial analytics and to become a proficient user of the CARTO platform.
CARTO User Manual
How to create connections to your data warehouse, build interactive maps and analytical workflows, subscribe to external data, and more.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions about the CARTO platform and its components.
What's New
Learn about the latest features, improvements and bug fixes in our product.
CARTO Self-hosted
Deploy CARTO on your own infrastructure. Learn about recommended architecture, requirements, and follow installation guides to get started.
CARTO CLI
Manage maps, workflows, connections, and the rest of your CARTO organization from the terminal, usable by humans and AI agents alike.
CARTO MCP Server
Plug CARTO into chat agents like Claude.ai, ChatGPT, and Gemini through the standard Model Context Protocol.
CARTO Agent Skills
Skill playbooks that teach coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI) how to drive CARTO without re-discovering the API every session.
Analytics Toolbox for BigQuery
Unlock Spatial Analytics on your BigQuery.
Analytics Toolbox for Snowflake
Unlock Spatial Analytics on your Snowflake.
Analytics Toolbox for Redshift
Unlock Spatial Analytics on your Redshift.
Analytics Toolbox for Databricks (Beta)
Unlock Spatial Analytics on your Databricks.
Analytics Toolbox for PostgreSQL
Unlock Spatial Analytics on your PostgreSQL.
Data Observatory
Gain access to thousands of public and premium spatial datasets, and save time on gathering, cleaning, and analyzing data.
CARTO + Python
A set of Python packages to allow data scientists to work with CARTO from Python notebooks.
