Legally Constituted Active Companies in Colombia

A registry of active, legally constituted companies. The dataset includes company names, unique identifiers, municipalities, and economic activity codes. It is published by datos.gov.co and was last updated in December 2025.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution of companies across MUNICIPIO to map regional business density.
• Classify companies by economic sector using the CIIU 1 and DESCRIPCION CIIU 1 columns.
• Link company records via the ID COMER. or MAT. fields for corporate structure analysis.

Strengths

• Includes multiple key identifiers per company: ID COMER., MAT., and NOMBRE.
• Categorizes companies by standardized economic activity code (CIIU 1).

Limitations

• Sample data unavailable, preventing assessment of data completeness or record count.
• Unknown temporal coverage limits analysis of trends over time.

Provenance

Source

datos.gov.co

Freshness

Last updated December 2025.

Geography

Colombia, based on municipality (MUNICIPIO) column.