More than a million formal companies, spread across the whole country. This guide shows how to locate them nationwide, by region and by sector, and get contacts that actually reply.
A Peru business directory is a list of Peruvian companies with their contact details: legal name, RUC tax ID, address, phone, website and email. To prospect nationwide you combine official sources like SUNAT and INEI with sector directories and Google Maps, then verify every contact before you sell.
It is a list of formal companies in the country with enough data to reach them: name or legal name, RUC, location, phone, website and, in the best case, a verified email. It is used by sales teams selling software, equipment, services or supplies to other businesses, who need a pipeline organized by region and by sector.
The market is large and highly fragmented. According to INEI economic statistics, Peru's business base exceeds one million formal companies, dominated by micro and small enterprises. The World Bank's Peru country overview describes a diversified economy where mining, agro-exports, retail and services coexist across very different regions.
Demand backs this up: per Vonsel internal data (2026), restaurants and dentists are the most-prospected business categories among paying teams, with dentists leading among paying customers. If you already work the capital, our companies in Lima directory covers that market in depth; this article looks at the whole country.
There are five realistic routes to build your directory. They differ widely in national coverage, freshness and manual work per contact:
The SUNAT register tells you whether a company is active, its legal name and its fiscal address. It is a source to validate, not to discover at scale: it gives no prospecting phones or emails.
INEI publishes how many companies exist by region, size and economic activity. It is perfect for sizing the market and prioritizing regions (Lima, Arequipa, La Libertad, Cusco), but it does not give individual contacts.
Regional chambers of commerce, trade bodies and sector directories list members with website and phone. Quality data, but partial: they only cover affiliates and almost never include a verified email.
Searching "restaurants in Trujillo" or "clinics in Arequipa" returns businesses with phone, website and rating. It is the freshest source, but copying each listing by hand takes 3-5 minutes and rarely includes the email.
The scraper searches live map and web data by sector and city, and returns name, address, phone, website, rating and a verified email in minutes. Teams use it to find business emails at scale without compiling by hand.
| Source | National coverage | Usable contact | Manual work |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUNAT (RUC lookup) | Full, record by record | Fiscal validation only | High |
| INEI (statistics) | Full, aggregated | None (no contacts) | Medium |
| Sector directories | Partial (affiliates) | Website and phone | Medium |
| Google Maps | Good by city | Phone, website, rating | High |
| Google Maps scraper | Nationwide, by sector | Phone, website and verified email | Minimal |
Context is what turns a record into a conversation. HubSpot's sales statistics show that most buyers prefer email as their first sales touchpoint, and that reps lose roughly a fifth of their day writing those emails. A list that already carries phone, website and rating per business lets you personalize in seconds instead of researching for minutes.
Peru is not a single market, so choose region and sector before writing an email: the pitch changes completely. Four filters do most of the work:
The bulk of the business base and of services. Competition for the inbox is high, so personalization beats volume.
The second economic pole, strong in retail, mining and manufacturing. Less commercial saturation than Lima and solid reply rates.
Trujillo, Chiclayo and Piura concentrate agro-exports, footwear and agribusiness. Very specific sectors: segment by sector, not by city alone.
Hotels, restaurants and travel agencies. Ideal if you sell to hospitality or tourism: dense, geolocated sectors.
Search Google Maps and press Start. Vonsel gathers the business results as you explore the map, going beyond the pins you can see at a glance. Pause, continue and save your search when you are ready. Google Maps does not provide business emails. Vonsel visits the available business websites to find published emails, additional phone numbers and links to up to 118 supported social networks and other platforms. What it finds depends on what each website publishes. Keep businesses on a map, organise them by stage, edit their details and use a Kanban board, calendar, notes, actions, tags and custom fields. Basic holds 400, Pro 2,000 and Scale 10,000.
In short:
If you want to see a Maps search turn into a contact list, watch the video tutorial of a full extraction. When your lists outgrow the free allowance, the pricing page shows what each plan includes.
