Fig 7. Selected municipalities by TDA over the Colombian territory for both parasites.

As expected, the clusters follow some geographic pattern, since the time series where constructed using a Kulldorf procedure that detects clusters geographically. For Plasmodium falciparum all clusters are concentrated near the pacific coast and northern Antioquia. Unexpected results happen in cluster 5 for Plasmodium vivax, where the grouped municipalities belong to two different geographic regions of the country. This means that the municipalities in this cluster from Chocó and Amazonas have similar time pattern, regardless of their geographical distance.