LATAM Company Finder: 7 official company registries, one English schema

By LatSouth. Search 19.7 million companies from the official registries of Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Argentina and Ecuador with one query. Every country's industry code is mapped to the UN ISIC Rev.4 standard, labels are in English, regions and cities are normalized, and each row says how active, how big and how old the company is. No Portuguese or Spanish codebooks, no seven different government downloads, no ETL.

Company data only: the output never contains e-mail addresses, phone or mobile numbers. You get the company's corporate e-mail domain (and the website derived from it), which is what you need to enrich contacts lawfully.

Who it's for

• Sales and SDR teams expanding into Latin America: "IT services companies in Colombia, Chile and Peru", "medium and large manufacturers in Mexico and Chile", "software companies in São Paulo with a verified website".
• Market sizing / TAM: every run reports how many companies match, per country, even if you only pull a sample (OUTPUT.matching_by_country).
• Data enrichment: start from an ISIC segment and feed tax IDs, names, domains and addresses to your waterfall or CRM.

Countries and sources

Country	Registry (official open data)	Companies (rows)	Active, private, not sole-owner (default)	Data as of
Brazil	Receita Federal, CNPJ open data (establishments; head offices flagged)	10,933,117	10,672,934	2026-10-10
Mexico	INEGI DENUE (legal entities only)	846,778	846,778	2026-05-20
Chile	Registro de Empresas y Sociedades + SII nómina	3,392,321	2,066,489	2026-08-03
Colombia	Confecámaras RUES + Supersociedades	1,816,257	824,782	2026-10-02
Peru	SUNAT Padrón RUC (legal entities, RUC 20)	916,523	575,502	2026-09-30
Argentina	Registro Nacional de Sociedades (Ministerio de Justicia / ARCA)	1,269,627	1,171,126 ¹	2026-09-18
Ecuador	SRI Catastro RUC (sociedades)	568,800	292,929	2026-10-01

¹ Argentina's registry has no company status; "active" there means the company reports at least one active tax activity (95% of rows). It is a weaker signal than in the other countries.

Software and IT services (ISIC division 62), active, private, not sole-owner: Brazil 250,990 · Chile 28,148 · Colombia 21,402 · Argentina 16,159 · Peru 9,209 · Ecuador 4,586 · Mexico 2,228.

What you get per company

Field group	Fields
Identity	country, tax_id + tax_id_type (CNPJ, RUT, NIT, RUC, CUIT; Mexico: DENUE establishment id, RFC is not published), legal_name, trade_name, legal_form (native) + legal_form_normalized (corp_like, llc_like, coop, nonprofit, …)
Status	is_active, status, sector (private/public), is_headquarters (Brazil), registration_date + registration_date_basis
Industry	activity_code_local + activity_label_local (CNAE, SCIAN, CIIU, CLAE), activity_label_en, isic_section / isic_division / isic_class with English labels, isic_basis (how it was mapped)
Size	size_class (micro/small/medium/large/unknown), size_bracket (native text), employees_bracket, employees_min/employees_max (Mexico, Chile, Peru)
Location	region (slug), region_name, region_iso (ISO 3166-2), city, address, zip
Web	website (Brazil: HTTP-verified; Mexico: declared to INEGI), website_verified, website_guess (from the corporate e-mail domain), email_domain, has_corporate_email
Provenance	data_as_of, source (the official credit), source_license

Coverage that differs by country

	BR	MX	CL	CO	PE	AR	EC
ISIC division	99.9%	100%	51% ²	91%	99%	66% ³	99%
ISIC class	90.5%	46%	51%	— ⁴	99%	64%	99%
Website or corporate domain	13.6%	42.5%	—	1.2%	—	—	—
Size class known	70%	100%	22.5%	2.2%	39%	—	—
Street address	✓	✓	✓	Supersoc only	✓	✓	province/canton only

² 1.65M Chilean companies have no activity in the SII files (58% of them are terminated). ³ 28% of Argentine companies still carry a pre-2013 tax activity code with no ISIC mapping (a strong "dormant" signal). ⁴ Colombia's CIIU classes differ from ISIC at class level; the division is exact.

Input examples

IT services across the Andean countries, one balanced sample

{
  "countries": ["CO", "PE", "EC", "CL"],
  "isic_divisions": ["62", "63"],
  "max_results_per_country": 250
}

Medium and large manufacturers in Mexico and Chile

{
  "countries": ["MX", "CL"],
  "isic_sections": ["C"],
  "size_class": ["medium", "large"],
  "sort_by": "size_desc"
}

Brazilian software head offices in São Paulo with a verified website, opened since 2023

{
  "countries": ["BR"],
  "isic_divisions": ["62"],
  "regions": ["BR-SP"],
  "only_headquarters": true,
  "only_with_verified_website": true,
  "registered_after": "2023-01-01"
}

Field	What it does
countries	BR, MX, CL, CO, PE, AR, EC (or the English/Spanish name). Empty = all 7
isic_sections, isic_divisions	ISIC Rev.4 letters (J) and 2-digit divisions (62); combined with OR
keyword	Substring in the English or local activity label, the ISIC labels, or the legal/trade name (accents optional)
regions	Region name (São Paulo, Antioquia, Metropolitana de Santiago), slug (SAO_PAULO) or ISO 3166-2 (BR-SP, CO-ANT, CL-RM)
cities	City as the registry publishes it (BR/MX/CO municipality, CL comuna, PE province, AR locality, EC canton)
size_class	micro, small, medium, large, unknown
only_active	Default true (see the Argentina note)
exclude_public_sector	Default true
exclude_sole_owner	Default true: leaves out sole-owner companies and person-named entities (their names are masked anyway)
only_headquarters	Brazil head offices only (other countries are one row per company already)
only_with_website, only_with_verified_website, only_with_corporate_email_domain	Web completeness
registered_after, registered_before	On registration_date
sort_by	size_desc (default), registration_date_desc, registration_date_asc, country_tax_id
max_results_per_country	Optional cap per country
max_results	Default 1000

How fields are harmonized

• Industry. Native codes are kept and mapped to ISIC Rev.4 with the official correspondence tables: IBGE's CNAE 2.0 × ISIC 4 table (Brazil), INEGI's SCIAN 2023 × CIIU Rev.4 table (Mexico); Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Argentina's codes embed the ISIC division/class; Peru's labels are matched to the UN Spanish titles. When a native code splits across several ISIC classes, only the division is filled. isic_basis tells you which rule applied.
• Size. Brazil: ME → micro, EPP → small (revenue thresholds of LC 123/2006); "DEMAIS" (neither) is unknown because it mixes large firms with nonprofits and firms that never declared a size. Mexico: INEGI employee brackets (0-10 micro, 11-50 small, 51-250 medium, 251+ large; per establishment). Chile: SII annual sales bands in UF. Colombia: Decreto 957/2019 revenue rules on Supersociedades filings. Peru: employee count (< 10, 10-49, 50-249, 250+).
• Registration date. Brazil: opening date. Mexico: month the establishment entered DENUE (not incorporation). Chile: incorporation or first tax registration. Colombia: commercial registration date. Argentina: articles of incorporation. Ecuador: start of activities. Peru: not published.
• Rows. One row per company everywhere except Brazil (one row per CNPJ establishment; use only_headquarters) and Mexico (one row per establishment of a legal entity).

What is excluded

• Natural persons and individual entrepreneurs (Brazil EI/MEI, Mexico personas físicas, Peru RUC 10, Ecuador personas naturales, Colombia personas naturales) are not in the data.
• No e-mail addresses, phone or mobile numbers, owners, partners or ID numbers of people. E-mail-looking strings found inside names or addresses are removed.
• Sole-owner entities (EIRL, EIRELI, empresa unipersonal, E.U.R.L., S.A.U.) and person-named entities (sociedades de hecho, estates, single-member law firms) have legal_name = "***" and no website or domain; they are excluded by default.
• Mexico: public-sector establishments and rows that are not a confirmed legal entity. Colombia: registrations without a NIT.

Data freshness

Country	Source cut	Source refresh
Brazil	2026-10-10	monthly
Mexico	2026-05-20 (DENUE 05/2026)	roughly yearly
Chile	2026-08-03 (SII nómina; RES to 2026-08-31)	RES monthly, SII yearly
Colombia	2026-10-02	continuous (RUES)
Peru	2026-09-30	monthly
Argentina	2026-09-18	yearly snapshot, updated in the year
Ecuador	2026-10-01	monthly

Every row carries data_as_of; the run's OUTPUT record holds data_as_of_by_country.

Sources, licenses and attribution

You must keep these credits when you use or publish the data (each row's source field already holds its country's text):

• Brazil: Fonte: Receita Federal do Brasil — Dados Abertos CNPJ. Brazilian federal open data.
• Mexico: Fuente: INEGI, Directorio Estadístico Nacional de Unidades Económicas (DENUE) 05/2026. Términos de Libre Uso de la Información del INEGI (https://www.inegi.org.mx/inegi/terminos.html).
• Chile: Fuente: Ministerio de Economía, Fomento y Turismo — Registro de Empresas y Sociedades (datos.gob.cl), CC BY; Servicio de Impuestos Internos — Nómina de Personas Jurídicas (www.sii.cl).
• Colombia: Fuente: Confecámaras – RUES; Superintendencia de Sociedades (datos.gov.co). CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/): Colombian rows, and works you derive from them, must be shared under the same license.
• Peru: Fuente: SUNAT, Padrón RUC (datosabiertos.gob.pe), ODC-BY 1.0 (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1-0/); names and addresses from SUNAT's Padrón Reducido RUC.
• Argentina: Fuente: Ministerio de Justicia de la Nación, Registro Nacional de Sociedades (datos.jus.gob.ar; data supplied by ARCA), CC BY 4.0; CLAE classifier: CEP XXI, CC BY 4.0.
• Ecuador: Fuente: Servicio de Rentas Internas (SRI) del Ecuador, Catastro RUC, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

The data was transformed (cleaned, harmonized to English, ISIC Rev.4 added, contacts removed, sole-owner names masked). This is not an official product of any of these agencies and none of them endorses it.

Pricing

Pay per event:

Event	When it's charged	Price
company-result	Once per company row returned in the dataset	$4.00 per 1,000 results (placeholder)

Set a maximum cost per run and the actor stops pushing rows when it's reached; OUTPUT.stopped_by_budget tells you.

Privacy

Company data only, built from official open registries. You are responsible for using the data lawfully in each country (LGPD in Brazil, LFPDPPP in Mexico, Ley 19.628 in Chile, Ley 1581 in Colombia, Ley 29733 in Peru, Ley 25.326 in Argentina, LOPDP in Ecuador) and for honoring opt-out requests.

FAQ

Why is Mexico smaller than its 6 million DENUE establishments? About 80% of DENUE rows are natural persons. Only establishments of confirmed legal entities are returned.

Can I get e-mails and phones? Not from this actor. Brazil and Mexico have dedicated LatSouth actors with registered company contacts.

Why do some Brazilian companies appear more than once? Brazil registers each branch under its own CNPJ. Use only_headquarters.