Open data2026-10-12

Open data: counts of manufacturers in Latin America

Testigo publishes 34 data files of aggregate counts: 1,498,009 manufacturing plants in 9 Latin American countries, by country, region, sector and activity, each row with its official registry and edition. They hold counts only and are free to use and cite with attribution. Data file generated 2026-10-12.

Plant-level records, with names and contacts, are not in these files. They are in the product, at app.testigomexico.com, with an account.

The files

Every file is static, served from this site, and open to any origin. The catalogue at /data/index.json lists them all with columns and row counts.

FileWhat it holdsRows
index.jsonThe catalogue: every file, its format, columns and row count, with the sources and the licence.
manufacturers-by-country.jsonmanufacturers-by-country.csvOne row per country: the registry, its edition, manufacturing rows in the source, rows loaded, and rows where the registry holds a phone, an email, a website or coordinates.9
manufacturers-by-industry.jsonmanufacturers-by-industry.csvOne row per ISIC division (sector): plants across every country, and per country.24
manufacturers-by-country-industry.jsonmanufacturers-by-country-industry.csvOne row per country and ISIC division: plants and the share of the country.189
manufacturers-by-state.jsonmanufacturers-by-state.csvOne row per country and first-level region (state, province, department): plants and the share of the country.219

One country at a time (CSV)

34 files in all. Columns: see the first row of a CSV file, the columns field of a JSON file, or the catalogue.

How to use them

Fetch a file by its address. No key, no account and no rate limit beyond ordinary courtesy. Each JSON file carries generated, sources and licence beside its rows.

Aggregate counts computed by Testigo from official public registries. Free to use and to cite with attribution to Testigo and to the publisher of each registry, under that publisher’s licence (sources[].licence). No plant, name, tax ID or contact is in these files. Plant-level records are in the product.

Cite as: Testigo, from the registry and edition named on the row, with the address of the file and the day you read it.

Sources and licences

One official registry per country. The licence is written as its publisher states it. Where a publisher states none, the counts are still Testigo's own computation from a public registry: credit the publisher. Colombia's registry is share-alike, so a table built from it keeps that licence.

CountryRegistryEditionRows loadedLicence, as the publisher states it
MexicoDENUEINEGI2026-05-20655,218INEGI terms of free use: reuse allowed, including commercial use, with the credit “Fuente: INEGI, DENUE”.
BrazilCNPJReceita Federal2026-09-14580,085Listed on dados.gov.br as Creative Commons Attribution.
PeruPadrón RUCSUNAT2026-09-3075,163Monthly padrón: Open Data Commons Attribution. Padrón reducido: no licence statement found.
ArgentinaRegistro Nacional de SociedadesMinisterio de Justicia2026-09-1874,039Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
ColombiaRUESConfecámaras2026-10-0270,609Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.
ChileNómina SII + RETCSII · Ministerio del Medio Ambiente2026-01-2928,208SII: no licence statement found. RETC: Creative Commons Attribution; one file is ODbL.
EcuadorDirectorio de compañíasSuperintendencia de Compañías2026-10-0311,767No licence statement found.
ParaguayRIEL + maquilaMIC2026-10-032,270Portal footer states an open state licence; the licence text was not read.
UruguayDirectorio de Empresas IndustrialesMIEM2026-07-31650Uruguay open data licence: reuse allowed, including commercial use, with attribution.