---
id: "uy_ci"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["pii", "persons"]
country: ["UY"]
langs: ["es"]
quality: 88
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/uy_ci"
---

# Uruguayan identity card number (cédula de identidad) (`uy_ci`)

> **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.

Number of the Uruguayan identity document (cédula de identidad). It has up to eight digits, the last of which is a check digit, and is often written with dots and a hyphen before the check digit, as in 1.234.500-8. The regexp accepts seven or eight digits with or without the separators.

- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Personally identifiable information (pii), Person related (persons)
- Countries: Uruguay (UY)
- Languages: Spanish (es)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:[1-9]\.?)?[0-9]{3}\.?[0-9]{3}-?[0-9]$
```

## Examples

- `1.234.500-8` — Example from the Cloudflare DLP documentation
- `1.234.500` (invalid example) — Check digit missing

## Mappings

- dpv: `pd:OfficialID`

## Supported by tools

- `cloudflaredlp`

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Document_(Uruguay)>
- doc: <https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/data-loss-prevention/detection-entries/predefined-detection-entries/>

## Quality

Score 88/100. Missing: second example, translation.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/uy_ci.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/UY/persons/uy_ci.yaml>