Ecuador Company Registry — Owners, Directors & Contacts

Structured company data for Ecuador, straight from the official public register of companies. Look up one company by tax ID, search by name, or pull whole slices of the register — and get back the things that actually matter for KYB, lead generation and credit work: who owns it, who runs it, how much capital it has, how to contact it, and what it owes.

Results come back as JSON, CSV, Excel or via API.

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What you get for every company

Identity

• Registered company name and trade name
• RUC (13-digit Ecuadorian tax ID) and the register's own file number
• Legal status (active, dissolved, in liquidation, cancelled) and an isActive flag
• Company type — S.A., Cía. Ltda., S.A.S., foreign branch
• Incorporation date, statutory term expiry, nationality, supervising regulator office

Contact details — the part most datasets are missing

• Up to two contact email addresses
• Landline, second landline, mobile, fax
• Website
• Full registered address broken into province, canton, city, parish, street, number, cross street, building, floor, block, neighbourhood, PO box — plus a ready-to-use single-line address and the landmark reference the company filed

Money

• Subscribed capital, authorised capital and nominal share value in USD
• Outstanding amounts owed to the regulator, itemised by year and type, with a total — a direct compliance and credit-risk signal

People — with national ID numbers

• Every current director and officer: national ID, full name, nationality, role, appointment date, term length, registration date and number
• A isLegalRepresentative flag marking the people who can legally bind the company
• The full roster of former directors and officers, same fields — useful for building history and spotting churn

Ownership

• The shareholder register: each holder's national ID or tax ID, name, nationality, capital held in USD, and any restriction flag
• Whether each holding is national, direct foreign or resident foreign investment
• Derived roll-ups: shareholder count, total shareholder capital, foreign shareholder count and the percentage of capital held from abroad
• Subsidiary companies, where the company is a holding

History

• Registered legal acts — capital increases, name changes, mergers, dissolutions — with resolution numbers and registration dates
• Optional annual filing history: which accounts and declarations were filed for which year, and when. A quick way to spot companies that stopped filing.

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Four ways to find companies

Mode	Use it for
Company name	Find companies by name or any fragment of one
Tax ID / national ID	Straight lookup by RUC (13 digits) or cédula (10 digits)
File number	Re-fetch known companies by their permanent registry file number
Sweep a range	Walk a whole block of the register at once

Deep name search — see what the registry hides

The registry's own name search shows at most 15 companies per term and cannot page past that. Search "BANANERA" on the official site and you get the first 15 alphabetically; every other banana company in Ecuador is invisible to you.

Turn on Deep name search and any term that hits that ceiling is automatically re-issued in narrower variants until the hidden companies come out. In testing, "BANANERA" returned 15 names on the official site — this Actor kept going and surfaced companies like REGINABANANERA S.A. that the site will not show you at all.

Sweep = a feed of newly incorporated companies

File numbers are issued in order, so sweeping a high range gives you companies in the order they were incorporated. Sweep the top of the range on a schedule and you have a new-company feed for Ecuador — with the founders' names and IDs attached from day one.

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Filters (you are never charged for filtered-out records)

Narrow before anything is counted as a result:

• Only active companies · specific legal statuses · specific company types
• Province, city, company-name contains
• CIIU economic activity prefix (e.g. G47 retail, K64 finance)
• Incorporated between two dates
• Minimum / maximum subscribed capital
• Only companies with an email, with a phone, or with a website
• Only government suppliers
• Only securities-market participants
• Only companies with foreign shareholders
• Only companies that owe the regulator money

Anything filtered out is discarded before it counts as a result, so you only pay for records you actually asked for.

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Example uses

• KYB / onboarding — resolve an Ecuadorian RUC to its legal name, status, address, directors and shareholders in one call
• Lead generation — every active S.A.S. in Pichincha with an email address and CIIU G47
• Credit and risk — companies with outstanding regulator debts, or in liquidation
• Ownership research — trace foreign investors and the capital they hold; follow the same person's national ID across every company they direct
• Market monitoring — a daily feed of newly incorporated companies and their founders

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Output

One row per company, with nested arrays for directors, shareholders, legal acts, filings and debts. Three ready-made dataset views — Companies, Contacts and Ownership — let you export a flat contact list or an ownership table without post-processing.

Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML table, or pull from the Apify API.

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Notes on coverage

• Amounts are in US dollars — Ecuador's official currency.
• Dates are normalised to YYYY-MM-DD.
• A handful of very large companies have shareholder registers the registry itself cannot render; for those, every other section is still returned and unavailableSections tells you exactly which part was missing rather than silently returning an empty list.
• File numbers that were never issued are skipped silently and never charged.
• Only information the registry publishes openly is returned.

Pricing

Pay per result — you are charged only for company records actually delivered. Failed runs, skipped file numbers and filtered-out companies are never charged.