Alcaldía de Albania

What Alcaldía de Albania does

Alcaldía Municipal de Albania, La Guajira is a local government entity operating under Colombia's constitutional framework for municipal administration, serving the residents of Albania municipality in the La Guajira department. Headed by Mayor Nera Eloísa Robles Bonivento (2024-2027 administrative period), the entity delivers the full scope of municipal public services including public administration, citizen services, health, education, infrastructure, social assistance, and environmental protection. Its operational structure encompasses four core entities: Hospital San Rafael de Albania (public health), Instituto de Tránsito Municipal INSTRANS (transportation), Personería Municipal (ombudsman/ministry representation), and Concejo Municipal (legislative council). The entity is supervised by national oversight bodies including the Contraloría General de la República and Procuraduría General de la Nación.

The municipality operates a unified digital portal built on Colombia's national Mi Colombia Digital / gov.co platform, accessed via albania-laguajira.gov.co. The portal consolidates citizen services including a procedures and services portal (Trámites y Servicios), a PQRDS feedback system, online tax payment via Zonapagos (predial and ICA), public contracting via SECOP, a Rendición de Cuentas accountability reporting section, a citizen participation menu (Participa), and an environmental Geovisor tool. The physical municipal headquarters is located at Carrera 4 # 4 - 48, Barrio el Centro, Albania, La Guajira.

The entity is funded through municipal tax collection and national government transfers rather than commercial revenue. It pursues strategic partnerships with national entities (Ministerio TIC, Prosperidad Social, SENA, Secretaría de Salud de La Guajira) and international organizations (CISP) to extend program delivery. The current 2024-2027 Plan de Desarrollo Municipal 'Cambiemos por Albania' defines the strategic agenda. The entity is not a private enterprise and does not generate revenue in the commercial sense; it has no funding rounds, private investors, M&A activity, or proprietary technology assets typical of investor-backed companies.

Name

Alcaldía de Albania

Legal name

Alcaldía Municipal de Albania, La Guajira

Website

https://albania-laguajira.gov.co

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Alcaldía Municipal de Albania, La Guajira is a Colombian municipal government entity delivering public administration, health, education, transportation, and social services to residents of Albania municipality through a physical headquarters and a unified digital portal built on the national Mi Colombia Digital platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Municipal Government Services

NAICS

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (921), Public Administration (92), Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development (9251)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAIACAA

Mayor/City Manager & General Administration

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Local/Municipal Government Administration

SECONDARYBPAIACAM

Local Transportation, Parking & Mobility Administration

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Local/Municipal Government Administration

SECONDARYBPAIACAF

Public Works & Municipal Infrastructure (Streets, Stormwater, Facilities)

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Local/Municipal Government Administration

SECONDARYBPAIACAJ

Housing & Neighborhood Services (Local Housing Programs)

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Local/Municipal Government Administration

Keywords

• Municipal government administration
• Public citizen services
• Government transparency portal
• Public procurement services
• Local tax collection services

Headquarters

HQ city

Albania

HQ country

Colombia

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Alcaldía de Albania is the municipal government of Albania, La Guajira, Colombia, providing public administration, citizen services, and local governance to residents. It delivers administrative procedures (trámites), tax collection (predial and ICA), public contracting via SECOP, PQRDS citizen requests, public accountability reports, citizen participation mechanisms, environmental monitoring, and operates public service entities including Hospital San Rafael, INSTRANS (municipal transit), Personería Municipal, and Concejo Municipal. Services are delivered through a physical municipal office and a unified digital portal built on the Mi Colombia Digital platform.

Product overview

Alcaldía de Albania operates a unified government web portal for the municipality of Albania, La Guajira, Colombia. The portal is built on Colombia's national Mi Colombia Digital platform and serves as the primary digital interface for all municipal services. It offers a portfolio of interconnected civic service modules: a citizen service and procedures portal (Trámites y Servicios), a PQRDS feedback and requests system, an online tax payment service (Predial and Industry and Commerce tax via Zonapagos), a public contracting portal linked to SECOP, a Rendición de Cuentas accountability reporting section, a citizen participation menu (Participa), and an environmental geovisor tool. All services are accessed through the single albania-laguajira.gov.co domain using the standardized Mi Colombia Digital government web infrastructure.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Portal de Transparencia y Atención al Ciudadano (Transparency and Citizen Service Portal) Official government website portal providing transparency information, citizen services, public information, and participation mechanisms for the municipality of Albania, La Guajira.
• Trámites y Servicios (Procedures and Services) Government procedures and services portal enabling citizens to access administrative services including pool approvals, urban implantation plans, land risk certificates, corpse transfers, outdoor advertising registration, and legal representative changes for property horizontal.
• PQRDS (Peticiones, Quejas, Reclamos, Sugerencias y Denuncias) Citizen feedback and requests management system allowing residents to file petitions, complaints, claims, suggestions, compliments, and denuncias to the municipal government.
• Rendición de Cuentas (Public Accountability Reporting) Public accountability reporting portal publishing management reports, contract execution reports, institutional performance reports, and public accounts meetings.
• Participación Ciudadana (Citizen Participation) Citizen participation menu including diagnostic identification, participatory planning and budgeting, citizen consultations, collaboration and innovation, accountability, and citizen control mechanisms.
• Pago de Impuestos en Línea (Online Tax Payment) Online tax payment portal for property tax (predial) and industry and commerce tax (ICA), integrated with the Zonapagos platform.
• Contratación Pública (Public Contracting) Public contracting portal publishing procurement notices, contract execution, annual acquisition plans, and contracting manuals for the municipality.
• Geovisor Ambiental (Environmental Geovisor) Environmental geovisor tool providing institutional environmental visualization data sourced from the Caribbean Environmental Hub.
• SECOP - Sistema Electrónico de Contratación Pública Electronic public procurement system integrated with Colombia's national SECOP platform for publishing and managing public contracts.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• CISP (Comitato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo dei Popoli)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 July 2026Strategic ally of the Unidad para las Víctimas working with the municipality to develop integral attention days for victims of armed conflict, providing orientation and accompaniment in administrative indemnification processes. Projected to serve 80-100 people per event.
• Ministerio TIC (Ministry of Information Technologies)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership through the Computadores para Educar program to strengthen education with technology tools. Delivered technological equipment to educational venues Tigre Pozo, Pitulumana 2, and Utpuray.
• Prosperidad Social - Renta Ciudadana AlbaniacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint initiative with the Secretary of Economic and Social Development and SENA to provide entrepreneurship and business strengthening technical training. Over 35 participants trained in entrepreneurship techniques.
• SENA (Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTechnical training partner in entrepreneurship and business strengthening programs for citizens of Albania municipality.
• Secretaría de Salud de La GuajiracoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerArticulation with departmental health secretariat for sanitary surveillance and inspection visits to commercial establishments, ensuring public health compliance.
• Contraloría General de la RepúblicaminorOthersFiscal control oversight entity for the municipality's public finances.
• Procuraduría General de la NaciónminorOthersDisciplinary control oversight entity ensuring compliance with public administration standards.
• Contraloría General de La República - Control fiscalminorOthersFiscal control entity overseeing proper use of public resources and goods.
• Corporación Autónoma Regional De La Guajira (Corpoguajira)minorOthersRegional environmental authority for La Guajira department involved in environmental decisions affecting the municipality.

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Alcaldía de Bogotá: Colombia's capital district and largest municipal government. Broad incumbent setting national standards for digital government, transparency, and citizen participation; comparable on the governance and public-administration dimension even though scale differs by orders of magnitude.
• Alcaldía de Medellín: Major Colombian municipality recognized for digital innovation in government. Broad incumbent benchmark for advanced municipal digital services, transparency portals, and citizen engagement platforms—relevant as a ceiling for what Albanian-style municipalities might aspire to.
• Alcaldía de Barranquilla: Large district-level municipality in Atlántico. Broader incumbent operating at significantly larger scale in the same Caribbean region, with more developed digital services (Barranquilla.me platform) but overlapping municipal service categories including health, transit, and citizen participation.
• Alcaldía de Santa Marta: District municipality on the Caribbean coast. Broader incumbent in the same Colombian Caribbean context, providing a wider portfolio of municipal services through its own digital infrastructure, useful comparison for service delivery scale and digital maturity.

Direct peers

• Alcaldía de Uribia: Municipality in La Guajira with predominantly indigenous population. Direct peer under same Colombian municipal governance framework, operating through Mi Colombia Digital portal, with similar limited fiscal base and dependence on national transfers.
• Alcaldía de Manaure: La Guajira municipality with similar small-town profile. Direct peer using identical national digital government infrastructure, with comparable budget scale and service portfolio focused on health, education, and infrastructure development.
• Alcaldía de Riohacha: Capital municipality of La Guajira department. Direct peer operating the same Colombian municipal government framework, providing citizen services through the Mi Colombia Digital platform, with similar oversight structure (Contraloría, Procuraduría) and exposure to La Guajira socioeconomic context.
• Alcaldía de Fonseca: Small La Guajira municipality operating under the same Colombian municipal government framework. Direct peer with comparable scale, Mi Colombia Digital platform usage, and exposure to departmental oversight from Corpoguajira and Secretaría de Salud de La Guajira.
• Alcaldía de Maicao: Second-largest municipality in La Guajira. Direct peer operating under identical Colombian municipal law, with same gov.co digital infrastructure, similar cross-border dynamics, and comparable service portfolio including health, transit, and social welfare.

Regional players

• Gobernación de La Guajira: Departmental-level government for La Guajira. Operates one level above the municipality in Colombia's territorial structure, coordinating health (Secretaría de Salud), environment (Corpoguajira), and infrastructure programs that interact directly with Albania's municipal service delivery.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/AlbaniaGuajira
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCr9tsCX6QHIF1OsDleNHnng
• Facebookfacebook.com/AlcaldiaAlbaniaLaGuajira
• Instagraminstagram.com/alcaldiadealbania
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/alcaldia-de-albania

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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