Gobernación del Putumayo

What Gobernación del Putumayo does

Gobernación del Putumayo is a first-level departmental government entity of the Republic of Colombia, headquartered at the Palacio Departamental in Mocoa, Putumayo. It administers public services for the entire Putumayo department — a southwestern Colombian jurisdiction bordering Ecuador and Peru — across 13 municipalities. Its functional mandate spans tax administration (vehicle, registration, and stamp taxes collected via the Treasury microsite and integrated SyC/Prisma payment platforms), oversight of a decentralized healthcare network comprising 10 E.S.E. public hospitals, departmental education governance, agricultural and competitiveness programs, infrastructure, and social development.

The entity operates a multi-application digital government platform anchored at putumayo.gov.co. Core products include the institutional portal, Gesdoc for PQRSD (citizen petitions, complaints, claims, suggestions, and denouncements) and document management, a dedicated Soporte Técnico IT portal, the Gaceta Departamental for official legal publications, and a public Estadísticas de la Sede Electrónica transparency dashboard. The platform integrates with third-party services for tax payments, passport scheduling, and procurement (SECOP). Reach signals include 24,617 total portal visits and 3,305 unique visitors, supplemented by Facebook and YouTube channels for citizen engagement.

Revenue mechanics differ from a private firm: the gobernación does not sell services. Funding derives from national System of General Participations transfers, departmental tax collection, royalties, and assigned national revenues; citizens pay government-mandated taxes and fees rather than commercial prices. Wholly-owned operating subsidiaries include Indercultura, the Instituto Tecnológico del Putumayo, and the 10 E.S.E. hospitals. The entity reports a headcount of 1,001-5,000 and is actively operating as of 2026.

Name

Gobernación del Putumayo

Legal name

Gobernación del Putumayo

Website

https://putumayo.gov.co

Company type

Public

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Gobernación del Putumayo is a Colombian departmental government entity headquartered in Mocoa that administers public services — tax collection, healthcare oversight across 10 E.S.E. hospitals, education, and infrastructure — for all residents of the 13 municipalities in the Putumayo department bordering Ecuador and Peru.

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akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Mocoa

HQ country

Colombia

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The Gobernación del Putumayo is a departmental government entity that administers the Putumayo department in Colombia, providing public administration services to citizens. Its core offerings include departmental tax collection (vehicle taxes, registration taxes, stamp duties, passport fees), coordination of a decentralized network of 10 E.S.E. public hospitals, oversight of public education, infrastructure development, agricultural competitiveness programs, and citizen attention services through digital and in-person channels.

Product overview

Gobernación del Putumayo operates a multi-channel digital government platform centered on its institutional web portal (putumayo.gov.co), which serves as the primary gateway to departmental services. The platform is composed of an integrated set of web applications: the main institutional portal for general government content and citizen services; Gestión Documental (Gesdoc) for digital document management and PQRSD workflows; a dedicated technical support portal; the Gaceta Departamental for official legal publications; a treasury microsite for tax and revenue collection; and a public electronic statistics dashboard. The portfolio functions as a unified digital government ecosystem rather than a standalone product.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Portal Institucional putumayo.gov.co

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Gobernación del Valle del Cauca: Larger Colombian southwestern departmental government with the same departmental-government mandate and a more developed service apparatus — comparable as a broader incumbent in the same geography that Putumayo operates within.
• Gobernación de Boyacá: Mid-sized Colombian departmental government with a fully built-out secretariat structure (Hacienda, Salud, Educación, Infraestructura, Agricultura) that closely mirrors Putumayo's portfolio — a comparable broad incumbent for benchmarking service delivery.
• Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá: Colombian capital-district government exercising the same general public-administration and citizen-services functions (tax collection, hospitals, education, mobility) at much larger scale — a useful broad-incumbent benchmark for governance and digital-service models.

Direct peers

• Gobernación del Amazonas: Small Colombian Amazonian departmental government operating under similar geographic isolation, low-population-density, and limited-tax-base constraints as Putumayo — directly comparable as a small, geographically remote Colombian department.
• Gobernación del Cauca: Neighboring Colombian departmental government administering a comparable mix of rural municipalities, indigenous populations, and decentralized hospital and education networks — directly comparable in mandate and operating model.
• Gobernación del Huila: Adjacent southwestern Colombian department with a similar portfolio of departmental health, education, and infrastructure responsibilities and comparable budget scale — a structurally analogous peer.
• Gobernación de Nariño: Colombian departmental government immediately adjacent to Putumayo, sharing a southwestern Andean-Amazonian border-region context, similar municipal fragmentation, and overlapping challenges in healthcare delivery, education, and border security — the closest functional peer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/gobputumayo
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@gobernaciondelputumayo1
• Facebookfacebook.com/gobernaciondelputumayo
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/gobernacion-del-putumayo

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Number of profiles

Subsidiaries11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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