diff --git a/gis/cartopy/cartopy.SlackBuild b/gis/cartopy/cartopy.SlackBuild
index 644e129eb4..fe91b5c511 100644
--- a/gis/cartopy/cartopy.SlackBuild
+++ b/gis/cartopy/cartopy.SlackBuild
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=cartopy
-VERSION=${VERSION:-0.15.1}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.16.0}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
diff --git a/gis/cartopy/cartopy.info b/gis/cartopy/cartopy.info
index 1ad2418e4e..62d4cdbf9f 100644
--- a/gis/cartopy/cartopy.info
+++ b/gis/cartopy/cartopy.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="cartopy"
-VERSION="0.15.1"
+VERSION="0.16.0"
 HOMEPAGE="http://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/SciTools/cartopy/archive/v0.15.1/cartopy-0.15.1.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="1fccdb95dd72d612cc772a555f323b66"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/SciTools/cartopy/archive/v0.16.0/cartopy-0.16.0.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="f9e2e528d7758da7c64f824548a53f32"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="geos matplotlib proj pyshp scipy Shapely"