Colombia's official data portal provides a registry of commercial entities for the archipelago department of San Andres, Providencia, and Santa Catalina. The dataset includes company names, registration dates, tax IDs, and commercial activities. It was last updated in December 2025.
Use Cases
- Analyze business activity trends over time using FEC-MATRICULA (registration date) and FEC-RENOVACION (renewal date).
- Identify the most common types of registered businesses by counting occurrences in the Actividad_p (primary activity) column.
- Track the operational status of companies by filtering on the EST-MATRICULA (registration status) field.
- Link corporate entities across datasets using the standardized NIT (tax identification number).
- Map business density by municipality using the MUN-COMERCIAL (commercial municipality) code.
Strengths
- Contains 7 distinct fields per business record, including legal name (RAZON SOCIAL) and tax ID.
- Data is updated regularly, with a last recorded update in December 2025.
Limitations
- Sample size and total row count are unknown, preventing assessment of statistical significance.
- Data coverage is limited to a single, small geographic region (San Andres archipelago).
- No information on data completeness, potential duplicates, or update history prior to 2025.
Provenance
- Source
- www.datos.gov.co (Colombian government data portal)
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Updated December 2025.
- Geography
- San Andres, Providencia and Santa Catalina archipelago, Colombia