Mexico Business Directory (DENUE / INEGI)

Search DENUE, the official directory of every economic establishment in Mexico maintained by INEGI (the national statistics institute), and get clean JSON: business name, legal name, SCIAN activity, employee size band, full address, neighborhood, postal code, municipality, state and GPS coordinates. More than 5 million establishments, from street taco stands to factories.

The Actor uses INEGI's official public API, so it is fast, stable and legally clean (INEGI's open-data terms allow commercial reuse with attribution). Pay per result: maxResults caps the cost.

What you can use it for

• B2B prospecting: every dental clinic in Monterrey, every hotel in Quintana Roo, every manufacturer with 100+ employees in Nuevo León.
• Geomarketing and site selection: competitors and complementary businesses within 1 km of a location.
• Mapping and segmentation: list and map establishments by activity, employee size and municipality (for bare counts larger than maxResults, see Limits).
• Data enrichment: match your customer list to official activity codes and coordinates.
• AI agents: ask questions about the Mexican business landscape in natural language through MCP (see below).

Input

Three search modes, chosen automatically from the fields you fill:

Mode	Fill in	API method
Keyword (default)	keyword + optional state	BuscarEntidad
Area / activity	state (or 00) + any of municipality, activityCode, employeeStratum, nameFilter (leave keyword empty)	BuscarAreaAct(Estr)
Radius	latitude + longitude + radiusMeters (max 5000) + optional keyword	Buscar

Fields a mode cannot use are not silently dropped: a keyword together with area fields, or a nameFilter together with coordinates, stops the run with an input error before anything is billed.

Field	Type	Default	Description
keyword	string	todos	Word(s) in Spanish for the keyword and radius modes. INEGI matches them against business name, legal name, street, neighborhood, activity class, state, municipality and locality; several words are separated by a comma (consultorios,dentales). todos = everything. Cannot be combined with the area fields.
nameFilter	string	–	Keep establishments whose trade name contains this text (e.g. oxxo). Switches to area mode: state 19 + nameFilter oxxo = every OXXO in Nuevo León.
state	string	00	Two-digit INEGI state code (09 Ciudad de México, 14 Jalisco, 19 Nuevo León …). 00 = all.
municipality	string	–	Three-digit municipality code within the state (e.g. 039 Monterrey). Codes: https://www.inegi.org.mx/app/ageeml/
activityCode	string	–	SCIAN/NAICS code: 2 digits (sector), 3 (subsector), 4 (rama) or 6 (clase), e.g. 722511 full-service restaurants, 621211 dental offices.
employeeStratum	string	–	1 0–5, 2 6–10, 3 11–30, 4 31–50, 5 51–100, 6 101–250, 7 251+. One band per run.
latitude, longitude	string	–	Center of a radius search in decimal degrees, e.g. 19.4326, -99.1332 (a decimal comma also works). Both are required; the run fails instead of silently searching the whole country.
radiusMeters	integer	1000	Up to 5000. Only used with coordinates.
maxResults	integer	500	Total cap.
includeContactFields	boolean	false	Also return the establishment's phone, email and website. Off by default.
inegiToken	secret	–	Your own free INEGI token. Leave empty to use the Actor's shared token.

Examples:

{ "keyword": "consultorios,dentales", "state": "19", "maxResults": 1000 }

{ "state": "09", "municipality": "015", "activityCode": "7225", "employeeStratum": "3", "maxResults": 2000 }

{ "state": "19", "nameFilter": "oxxo", "maxResults": 3000 }

{ "keyword": "farmacia", "latitude": "20.6597", "longitude": "-103.3496", "radiusMeters": 1500 }

Output

One item per establishment. This is the sample establishment from INEGI's own API documentation (BuscarEntidad method) as the Actor returns it in keyword mode:

{
    "id": "34185",
    "clee": "01001722514004531",
    "name": "LONCHERÍA LOS CUATES",
    "legalName": null,
    "activity": "Restaurantes con servicio de preparación de tacos y tortas",
    "activityCode": "722514",
    "stateCode": "01",
    "municipalityCode": "001",
    "employeeStratum": "0 a 5 personas",
    "establishmentType": "Fijo",
    "streetType": "CALLE",
    "street": "INEGI",
    "exteriorNumber": "201",
    "interiorNumber": null,
    "neighborhood": "JARDIN DE LAS BUGAMBILIAS",
    "postalCode": "20280",
    "locality": "AGUASCALIENTES",
    "municipality": "Aguascalientes",
    "state": "AGUASCALIENTES",
    "address": "CALLE INEGI No. 201, Col. JARDIN DE LAS BUGAMBILIAS, C.P. 20280, Aguascalientes, AGUASCALIENTES",
    "latitude": 21.85796749,
    "longitude": -102.28485913,
    "shoppingCenter": null,
    "shoppingCenterType": null,
    "localNumber": null,
    "registrationDate": null,
    "mapUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=21.85796749,-102.28485913",
    "source": "INEGI, Directorio Estadístico Nacional de Unidades Económicas (DENUE)",
    "searchKeyword": "tacos",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-26T20:11:05.000Z"
}

phone, email and website are added only when includeContactFields is on. Fields INEGI does not publish for an establishment are null. Place names come in INEGI's own casing (locality and state in upper case). activityCode (6-digit SCIAN class), stateCode and municipalityCode are filled in every mode: INEGI returns the class code directly in area mode, and in all modes the CLEE encodes state (2 digits), municipality (3) and class (6), so the Actor derives them from it and you can join results to your own INEGI-coded data. registrationDate is only returned by the area/activity mode. searchKeyword holds the keyword (keyword and radius modes) or the nameFilter (area mode).

Pricing & cost examples

$2.00 per 1,000 establishments (pay per event, charged only for items saved to the dataset; duplicates and errors are never billed). maxResults is a hard cost cap. Examples: 1,000 establishments ≈ $2.00 · all dental offices in Nuevo León (~3,000) ≈ $6 · a 500-result territory list ≈ $1.00. Apify platform usage is included in the price.

Use it from an AI agent (MCP)

Every Apify Actor is available as a tool through the Apify MCP server. Add https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=hexadatalabs/mexico-business-directory-denue as an MCP server in Claude, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client (with your Apify token) and ask:

"How many hotels with 51 to 100 employees are there in Cancún, and where are they?"

The agent calls this Actor with {"state":"23","municipality":"005","activityCode":"7211","employeeStratum":"5"} and reasons over the results. For "more than 50 employees" the agent runs it once per band (employeeStratum 5, 6 and 7), or once without employeeStratum and filters the employeeStratum field itself.

From code:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/hexadatalabs~mexico-business-directory-denue/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keyword":"ferreteria","state":"14","maxResults":300}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("<APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("hexadatalabs/mexico-business-directory-denue").call(run_input={
    "state": "19", "municipality": "039", "activityCode": "3363", "maxResults": 500,
})
for biz in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(biz["name"], biz["activity"], biz["employeeStratum"], biz["address"])

Limits and notes

• Data is INEGI's DENUE snapshot (updated by INEGI about twice a year). It is a census-based directory, not a live business listing.
• Keyword matching is done by INEGI in Spanish. Per INEGI's API documentation the words are searched in the business name, legal name, street, neighborhood, activity class, state, municipality and locality, so a keyword such as hidalgo also returns businesses on a street or in a municipality with that name. Several words must be separated by a comma (consultorios,dentales); INEGI's vocabulary works best (restaurantes, dentales, talleres,mecanicos).
• Radius searches return everything within the radius in one call (no paging); area and keyword searches page 100 records at a time.
• Nation-wide todos searches without an activity code are huge; use maxResults or narrow by state.
• A count is only exact up to maxResults; larger result sets are truncated at that cap, so for market sizing set maxResults above the expected total or narrow the area.
• The Actor's shared INEGI token is used by every customer of this Actor and INEGI rate-limits it; for large or scheduled jobs request your own free token and pass it in inegiToken.
• Runs can be aborted and resurrected: progress (page offset and the ids already saved) is persisted, so a resurrected or migrated run continues where it stopped without pushing duplicates.

Legal notice and attribution

Data comes from INEGI's DENUE through its official API, under INEGI's terms of free use, which permit copying, extraction, adaptation and commercial use with attribution. When you publish or redistribute the data, cite it as "Fuente: INEGI, Directorio Estadístico Nacional de Unidades Económicas (DENUE)" and do not imply INEGI endorses your product. Phone, email and website are business contact details published by INEGI; they are omitted unless you explicitly request them, and you remain responsible for using them lawfully (e.g. Mexico's LFPDPPP for sole proprietors).

Changelog

• 0.1 (2026-10-27) — First public release.

Support

Found a problem or need another field? Open an issue in the Issues tab of this Actor; we answer within 24 hours and ship confirmed fixes within 48 hours.

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En español

Consulta el DENUE del INEGI (más de 5 millones de negocios en México) por palabra clave, estado, municipio, código SCIAN o radio geográfico, usando la API oficial. Devuelve nombre, razón social, actividad, tamaño por empleados, dirección completa y coordenadas. Se cobra por resultado; usa maxResults para limitar el costo. Varias palabras se separan con coma (consultorios,dentales). Teléfono, correo y sitio web solo se incluyen si activas includeContactFields. Cita siempre "Fuente: INEGI, DENUE".