---
id: "co_postcode"
kind: "pattern"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["geo", "pii", "common"]
country: ["CO"]
langs: ["es"]
quality: 100
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/co_postcode"
---

# Colombian postal code (`co_postcode`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Postal code (código postal) in Colombia: six digits. The first two digits are the department, such as 11 for Bogotá and 05 for Antioquia.

- Pattern of: `postindex`
- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Geographic identifiers (geo), Personally identifiable information (pii), Common (common)
- Countries: Colombia (CO)
- Languages: Spanish (es)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{6}$
```

## Examples

- `110111` — Bogotá
- `050001` — Medellín
- `760001` — Cali
- `11011` (invalid example)

## Mappings

- fta: `POSTAL_CODE.POSTAL_CODE_CO`

## Supported by tools

- `fta`

## Translations

- ru: Почтовый индекс Колумбии

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Colombia>
- other: <https://github.com/tsegall/fta/blob/main/SemanticTypes.md>

## Quality

Score 100/100.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/co_postcode.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/CO/geo/co_postcode.yaml>