# Uruguay

Company data from the Uruguay business register, through the Topograph API.

> **Beta**: this country is in early development. We are still expanding and refining its coverage. Some datapoints or documents may be missing, the integration may be unstable, prices may change without notice, and it is not covered by SLAs.

## Overview

Topograph reads Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU) and returns the company profile of Uruguay companies through one API.

> **Warning**
> **Uruguay is prefill-only.** Every request must pass `"mode": "prefill"`. The country is served from the Central Bank’s published list of registered entities, a non-authoritative source, so there is no lane for `verification` (which is what `/v2/company` uses when you omit `mode`). A request without it comes back with the datapoint failed and the error code `authoritative_source_unavailable`. See [Modes](https://docs.topograph.co/essentials/modes).

Search by name or RUT. The RUT is the identifier to use with company requests: 12 digits, leading zeros included.

Coverage is the about 98,700 entities that have filed a beneficial-owner declaration with the Central Bank: corporations (S.A.), simplified joint-stock companies (SAS), trusts, foundations and civil associations, cooperatives, foreign entities with a presence in Uruguay, and a minority of limited liability companies (S.R.L.). Sole traders and most S.R.L.s are not covered.

The company profile gives the legal name, RUT, legal form and, for an entity in liquidation, that status. It never confirms that a company is active.

## Coverage

What comes back for each datapoint and document, as on the coverage matrix.

Requests run in prefill mode (fast); there is no verification path here yet.

| Datapoint | Returned |
| --- | --- |
| Company profile | Yes |

| Document | Returned |
| --- | --- |
| Register extract | No |
| Articles of association | No |
| Financials | No |
| UBO extract | No |

## Sources

The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.

- **[Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU)](https://www.bcu.gub.uy/Servicios-Financieros-SSF/Paginas/Registro-de-titulares-de-participaciones-patrimoniales.aspx)**: The Banco Central del Uruguay keeps the register of equity holders and beneficial owners of Uruguayan entities. It publishes the list of entities that have filed their declaration to that register: legal name, RUT and entity type (legal form and kind of shares, or in liquidation). The holders and owners themselves are confidential. The list is republished about once a month.

## Identifiers

Request a company by its RUT (Registro Único Tributario) as the `id`, with `countryCode` set to `UY`. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.

## The full Uruguay reference

The full reference covers how each datapoint is sourced and mapped, the vocabularies the API returns, the documents you can order and exact example responses. It is free with a Topograph account.

| In the full reference | Entries |
| --- | --- |
| Identifiers and formats | 1 |
| Search patterns | 2 |
| Quirks | 6 |
| Legal forms | 32 |
| Company statuses | 1 |
| Example responses | 5 |

- Create a free account: https://www.topograph.co/sign-up?redirect_url=%2Fcountries%2Fuy
- Sign in: https://www.topograph.co/sign-in?redirect_url=%2Fcountries%2Fuy

With a session, https://www.topograph.co/countries/uy.md returns the full reference as Markdown. Assistants signed in to the [Topograph Wizard MCP](https://docs.topograph.co/guides/topograph-mcp) can read it there too.

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Source: https://www.topograph.co/countries/uy