Panela Producers in Putumayo, Colombia: Business Registry Data

Putumayo Department's registry of businesses and non-profit entities actively dedicated to the production or processing of panela (unrefined cane sugar). The dataset includes commercial and administrative details for registered producers, sourced from the Colombian open data portal datos.gov.co. It was last updated on 2026-05-18.

Use Cases

• Mapping producer locations and density across municipalities using MUN-COMERCIAL and BARRIO-COMERCIAL.
• Analyzing the economic activities of registered entities using ACTIVIDAD and CIIU classification codes (CIIU-1 through CIIU-4).
• Building a contact directory for business outreach using RAZON SOCIAL, DIR-COMERCIAL, and TEL-COM/EMAIL-COMERCIAL columns.
• Tracking business registration status and renewal patterns using EST-MATRICULA, MATRICULA, and ULT-ANO_REN.

Strengths

• Includes structured business identifiers such as NIT (tax ID) and MATRICULA (registration number).
• Contains multiple contact points with up to three phone numbers (TEL-COM-1, TEL-COM-2, TEL-COM-3) and email addresses.
• Data is available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and completeness require manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official business registration records.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 19:07:47; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Putumayo Department, Colombia