The Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MIC) presented the Competitive Intelligence Map (MIC MAP), a platform that brings together territorial, productive, logistics and energy data to guide public policy and investment decisions in Paraguay.
Launched on September 8 during National Industry Day, the tool allows users to consult information by department, municipality or area of interest and cross-reference variables such as company locations, infrastructure, connectivity, energy, health, vocational training and foreign trade.
The map covers 263 cities, 9,107 kilometers of highways, border crossings and rivers. In the electricity section, it incorporates data from three power plants, 104 substations and 2,553 kilometers of transmission lines from the National Administration of Electricity (ANDE), the state entity responsible for Paraguay’s electricity sector.
The platform also records 23 fuel distributors, 2,869 service stations and 74 plants for self-supply of natural gas. In the productive dimension, it lists 20,797 industries across 16 sectors, allowing users to identify business concentrations and potential productive hubs by region.
The system also includes information on the working-age population, employment, training centers, health infrastructure, protected areas, customs offices and international trade. The trade database contains information on 250 countries for the 2016–2025 period, as well as a ranking of trading partners.
Industry and Commerce Minister Marco Riquelme said the initiative responds to the need to understand not only which resources and companies exist in the country, but also where they are located, how they are connected and what conditions they offer for new ventures. The integration could help a company compare, for example, the distance to routes and logistics centers with the availability of energy and labor in each municipality.
The version presented is still in beta. Riquelme said the MIC plans to incorporate corrections and updates based on comments from governors, investors and other users. Through the project, the government aims to reduce the dispersion of information among institutions such as the MIC itself, ANDE and the National Institute of Statistics (INE), turning territorial data into a single reference for productive planning and attracting capital.