Ecuador

How to use Kausate in Ecuador — what you can call, and which identifiers it uses

New to the API? Start with the jurisdictions overview, which explains how ordering, identifiers and documents work everywhere.

Operations

6 callable

Documents

None yet

Your own registry account

Not needed

Company data here comes directly from Superintendencia de Compañías, Valores y Seguros.

What you can call here

What each operation does is the same everywhere and is explained on the jurisdictions overview.

Operation	Status
Autocomplete	Coming soon
Company search	Live
Company report Includes: Registered details.	Live
Shareholder graph	Live
Beneficial owners	Live
List documents	Live
Retrieve a document	Live

Start with company search and jurisdictionCode: "ec". Pass the name as companyName, a registration number as companyNumber, or both to narrow the result. Here companyNumber is read as expediente.

Fields

To say exactly what you mean, send an advancedQuery instead. Ecuador understands these fields:

Field	What it does
`name`	Company name to search for.
`expediente`	Supercias file number (expediente), 1–6 digits (e.g., '48232').
`ruc`	Ecuador tax ID (R.U.C.), 13 numeric digits (e.g., '1791269780001').

Examples

{  "jurisdictionCode": "ec",  "advancedQuery": {    "expediente": "48232"  }}

Ecuador also accepts ruc.

Company identifiers

Search by passing the registration number as companyNumber — it is matched against the schemes this register can search on, so you do not name the scheme yourself. Not every scheme below is searchable; the rest label the values returned in a company’s identifiers.

Identifier	Appears as	Format
Expediente Supercias file number (expediente)	`ec_expediente`	`^\d{1,6}$`
Cédula de identidad Ecuadorian national identity card number for a natural person - 10 digits: a province code (01-24, or 30 for Ecuadorians abroad), a third digit below 6, six sequence digits and a modulo-10 check digit	`ec_cedula`	`^\d{10}$`
R.U.C. Ecuador tax identification number (Registro Único de Contribuyentes)	`ec_ruc`	`^\d{13}$`

Identifier notes

When a shareholder or beneficial owner is a foreign company, Ecuador's registry doesn't issue it a R.U.C. Supercias assigns its own reference code instead, in a different format (for example, SE-Q-00002013) that won't match the 13-digit R.U.C. pattern used elsewhere in this jurisdiction. Treat that code as the register's own reference for the entity, not as a national tax ID.

Documents you can order

Nothing can be ordered in Ecuador yet. These are the documents the register will expose once they are live.

Document	Status
Ecuador Document Retrieval Download document from Ecuador Supercias registry	Coming soon
Ecuador List Documents List available documents from Ecuador Supercias registry	Coming soon

Local notes

Gotchas

Trap	What happens
Expediente instead of R.U.C.	Some older-registered companies have only a file number (expediente) on file, no tax ID at all. Key matching or display logic on expediente presence, not R.U.C.
Individuals carry no ID number	Individual shareholder and beneficial-owner entries carry only name and nationality — no ID number, unlike corporate shareholders in the same list. There's no register-issued number to match people on.

Glossary

Term	Meaning
`NACIONAL`	Appears in the interestDetails field of a shareholder or beneficial-owner entry to mark the holding as domestic investment, held by an Ecuadorian party.
`EXTRANJERA DIRECTA`	Appears in the same field to mark the holding as direct foreign investment, held by a non-Ecuadorian party.