Install geopandas

Careful, before installing geopandas create a clone of your python root environment and install it on the clone, not on the original. Otherwise you could crash your whole system. 

A step by step tutorial with pictures can be found here

In terminal:

conda create --name <env_name> --clone base

In mac installing geopandas is straightforward

In windows, you should follow these steps:

https://geoffboeing.com/2014/09/using-geopandas-windows/

1/ download GDAL, Fiona, pyproj, rtree, and shapely  here 

update: Apparently, since January 2024, just installing GDAL, FIONA, pyrpoj, rtree and shapely in order without downloading .wheel might work

2/install GDAL

3/Add GDAL in windows environment path (C:\Anaconda\Lib\site-packages\osgeo )

4/ install in order: Fiona

wheel file, then your pyproj wheel file, then rtree, and then shapely 

5/then: pip install geopandas

6/also: pip install descartes

After you can also type:

conda install -c conda-forge mapclassify 

and to handle raster

=> download rasterio wheel file and place in with the other wheel

then type

pip install GDAL-3.4.1-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.whl rasterio-1.2.10-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.whl