Pymes San Andres, Providencia y Santa Catalina

A business registry listing small and medium enterprises (PYMES) in the Colombian archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina. The dataset is hosted on the Colombian open data portal www.datos.gov.co and was last updated on 2026-05-18. It includes columns for company registration, size, and economic activity classification.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution of company sizes (TAM-EMPRESA) across different economic sectors (CIIU-1, CIIU-2).
• Track business registration and renewal timelines using FEC-MATRICULA and FEC-RENOVACION columns.
• Map commercial activity by municipality using the MUN-COMERCIAL field for geographic analysis.
• Identify unique business entities for record linkage or deduplication using the NIT (tax ID) and RAZON SOCIAL (legal name) columns.

Strengths

• Includes official business identifiers (NIT) and legal names (RAZON SOCIAL).
• Provides multiple dates (FEC-MATRICULA, FEC-RENOVACION) for temporal analysis.
• Covers a specific and distinct geographic region within Colombia.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co (Colombian open data portal)

Collection Method

Likely sourced from an official business registry or government administrative database.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 16:32:57; freshness should be verified.

Geography

San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, Colombia