Colombia Active Business Registry for 2023: Natural Persons and Companies
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Description
Comerciantes Activos is a registry of active and valid merchants for the year 2023, including natural persons and companies. The dataset is hosted on the Socrata platform by www.datos.gov.co and was last updated on 2026-05-18. It contains columns for business identification, classification, location, and status.
Use Cases
Classify business size and sector using TAM_EMPRESA, CIIU-1, and CIIU-2 columns.
Analyze business registration trends over time using FEC_MATRICULA, ULT_ANO_REN, and PERIODO columns.
Map commercial establishments by municipality using MUN_COMERCIAL and DIR_COMERCIAL columns.
Verify business entity status and details using NIT, MATRICULA, RAZON_SOCIAL, and ESTADO_MAT columns.
Strengths
Contains structured business data for the specific year 2023.
Offers multiple data formats (CSV, JSON, XML, RDF) for accessibility.
Includes detailed classification codes (CIIU-1 through CIIU-4) for economic activity analysis.
Limitations
Row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
Source
www.datos.gov.co
Collection Method
Likely an official administrative registry of commercial entities.
Time Range
2023
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-18 19:04:25; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Colombia (inferred from organization domain and Spanish language metadata).
License is unknown; terms of use should be verified before application.