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Business data in Ecuador. Where the records live.
In Ecuador, company facts are split between the Superintendencia de Compañías (SCVS) corporate directory and the SRI RUC taxpayer registry, both Spanish-language and rarely mirrored cleanly into global lead tools. This page is a live view of that coverage for Ecuador, updated automatically.
What Atlas holds for Ecuador
Source: the Atlas database, updated automatically.
The official records
Ecuador runs a two-track system. Incorporated companies (compañías anónimas and limitadas) are supervised by the Superintendencia de Compañías, Valores y Seguros, whose Directorio de Compañías lets you look up a firm by name or RUC. Tax identity sits with the SRI, which issues the RUC, a 13-digit number where the first two digits encode the province of registration and a company RUC ends in 001. Reading both is the only way to see who is genuinely active versus dissolved or merely name-reserved.
Activity concentrates in Guayaquil and Quito and tilts toward commerce, food and agro-export (bananas, shrimp, cacao, flowers), construction and a growing services and fintech layer. Most of these are small, owner-run firms that trade in Spanish and never publish English-language profiles.
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.sri.gob.ec
- www.sri.gob.ec
- www.ccq.ec
- www.ecuadorencifras.gob.ec
- www.eltelegrafo.com.ec
- www.proecuador.gob.ec
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.