Water and waste companies in Colombia
ISIC section E: Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation. 16,371 records from the RUES + Supersociedades (datos.gov.co), 9,315 active, data as of 2026-10-02.
Section E, water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation, holds 16,371 Colombian company records as of 2026-10-02, 9,315 of them active. By department, Bogotá D.C. leads with 4,242 (26% of the section), followed by Antioquia (1,676) and Valle del Cauca (1,359). The largest divisions are 38 (waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery, 7,086) and 36 (water collection, treatment and supply, 5,910); 2 further divisions complete it. That is 0.9% of the Colombia registry in this build.
Water utilities, sanitation concessions, waste haulers, recyclers and environmental remediation firms. Division 38 is the bulk of it: collection, landfills, scrap and materials recovery. Buyers are typically equipment, fleet, compliance and ESG-reporting vendors; municipal utilities register as public-sector entities and are flagged in the sector column. In Colombia, rows carry the ISIC division (Colombian CIIU classes are national, so there is no ISIC class); size is known for 1%; 0.4% have a corporate e-mail domain (Supersociedades filers and two chambers); 664 were registered in the 12 months before the extraction. Department is the chamber's seat for most Colombian rows, and status comes from renewal and liquidation signals rather than a single flag.
By department (top 10)
| Department | Records | Active | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bogotá D.C. | 4,242 | 2,148 | 25.9% |
| Antioquia | 1,676 | 1,102 | 10.2% |
| Valle del Cauca | 1,359 | 663 | 8.3% |
| Santander | 1,168 | 803 | 7.1% |
| Boyacá | 1,125 | 850 | 6.9% |
| Cundinamarca | 947 | 691 | 5.8% |
| Atlántico | 781 | 296 | 4.8% |
| Bolívar | 489 | 241 | 3.0% |
| Nariño | 464 | 306 | 2.8% |
| Huila | 406 | 273 | 2.5% |
Divisions in section E
36 water collection and supply, 37 sewerage, 38 waste collection, treatment and disposal; materials recovery, 39 remediation.
| ISIC division | Records | Active | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 Waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery | 7,086 | 3,454 | 43.3% |
| 36 Water collection, treatment and supply | 5,910 | 4,419 | 36.1% |
| 39 Remediation activities and other waste management services | 2,782 | 1,093 | 17.0% |
| 37 Sewerage | 593 | 349 | 3.6% |
Size mix
| size_class | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| micro | 83 | 0.5% |
| small | 27 | 0.2% |
| medium | 13 | 0.1% |
| large | 2 | 0.0% |
| unknown | 16,246 | 99.2% |
Largest cities
| City (top 5) | Records |
|---|---|
| Ibague | 71 |
| Pereira | 55 |
| Bogota D.C. | 19 |
| Cali | 2 |
| Cartago | 2 |
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