What Atlas holds for Colombia
Source: the Atlas database, updated automatically.
The official records
Colombia's authoritative business record is the Registro Único Empresarial y Social (RUES), the national registry that Confecámaras consolidates from the country's 57 regional chambers of commerce. Every merchant and company files in its local cámara, the Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá being by far the largest, and each entry carries the firm's NIT (Número de Identificación Tributaria), legal status, address and registered activity. RUES today aggregates on the order of 4.5 million active records, the overwhelming majority of them micro and small enterprises in commerce, services and food. Activity clusters in Bogotá, Antioquia (Medellín) and Valle del Cauca (Cali), alongside manufacturing and agro-industry hubs.
Newly registered companies and informal businesses that have just formalised appear in RUES long before any bought list catches them.
How to use the register
- Start from the register, not from a bought list. It is the legal record of every company.
- Read the status field. Registers keep closed companies too. See how many have closed in other registers.
- Check the website belongs to the company, with the registration number or a distinguishing name on the page.
Sources
- www.ccb.org.co
- www.rues.org.co
- www.superfinanciera.gov.co
- www.colombia.com
- www.confecamaras.org.co
- www.dane.gov.co
Descriptions are based on the national sources above. Figures in the text are rounded and change over time. Found an error? Write to atlasforgex@proton.me. More countries: business data by country and registers by country.