# Indicadores Argentina

> Real-time and historical Argentine economic indicators — exchange rates, inflation, monetary aggregates, fiscal data, and market indices — aggregated from official sources for analysts, journalists, researchers, and developers.

Indicadores Argentina (https://indicadores.ar) publishes up-to-date economic data for Argentina, sourced directly from the BCRA (Banco Central de la República Argentina), INDEC, the Ministry of Economy, the World Bank, and other official institutions. Indicators are updated every two hours via automated crawlers. Historical series go back to 1990 for many variables. All data is presented with interactive charts and is freely accessible without registration.

## Available Indicators

### Exchange Rates
- [Dolar Blue (parallel market)](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/dolar-blue): Informal exchange rate, updated daily.
- [Dolar Oficial (official rate)](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/dolar-oficial): BNA official exchange rate.
- [Dolar MEP (stock-market dollar)](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/dolar-mep): Dollar purchased through bond operations on the local stock exchange.
- [Dolar CCL (Contado con Liquidación)](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/dolar-ccl): Dollar obtained via foreign-settled bond transactions.
- [Dolar Tarjeta (credit card dollar)](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/dolar-tarjeta): Effective rate for credit card purchases abroad, including taxes.
- [Dolar Cripto](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/dolar-cripto): Crypto-market implied dollar rate.
- [Brecha Cambiaria (currency spread)](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/brecha-cambiaria): Percentage gap between blue and official dollar rates.
- [Real Brasileño (BRL/ARS)](https://indicadores.ar/calculadora-real): Brazilian Real to Argentine Peso conversion.
- [Cotización histórica del dólar](https://indicadores.ar/calculadora-historica): Historical dollar rates with date-specific lookups.

### Inflation
- [Inflación Mensual (monthly CPI)](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/inflacion): INDEC monthly consumer price index variation.
- [Inflación Interanual (year-over-year)](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/inflacion): 12-month rolling inflation rate.
- [Inflación de Estados Unidos](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos): US CPI for comparison, sourced from FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data).

### Monetary Indicators
- [Base Monetaria](https://indicadores.ar/base-monetaria): BCRA monetary base, daily series since 1990.
- [Reservas Internacionales del BCRA](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/reservas): International reserves in USD, daily.
- [M2 (variación interanual)](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/m2): Broad money supply year-over-year change.
- [Cobertura Monetaria (reserves / monetary base)](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/cobertura-monetaria): Ratio of reserves to monetary base — an implicit exchange rate measure.

### Interest Rates and Financial Indices
- [BADLAR (tasa de interés bancaria)](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/badlar): Private-bank deposit rate for amounts over ARS 1M, 30-35 day term.
- [Plazo Fijo (30 días)](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/plazo-fijo): Average 30-day fixed-term deposit rate.
- [CER (Coeficiente de Estabilización de Referencia)](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/cer): Inflation-adjustment coefficient used in CER-adjusted bonds and contracts.
- [UVA (Unidad de Valor Adquisitivo)](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/uva): Purchasing-power unit used in UVA-adjusted mortgages and savings.
- [ICL (Índice de Contratos de Locación)](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/icl): Rental contract adjustment index.
- [UVA vs Dólar](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/uva-vs-dolar): Comparative evolution of UVA index against the dollar.

### Market Indices and Stocks
- [MERVAL](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/merval): Buenos Aires stock exchange main index, in ARS and USD.
- [S&P 500](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos): US S&P 500 index for comparison.
- [MercadoLibre (MELI)](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos): MELI stock price on NASDAQ.
- [YPF](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos): YPF S.A. stock price on NYSE.

### Fiscal and Macroeconomic Data
- [Riesgo País (country risk)](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos): EMBI+ Argentina spread in basis points, historical data since 1987.
- [Resultado Fiscal Primario](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/resultado-fiscal): Primary fiscal balance, monthly, sourced from the Ministry of Economy via datos.gob.ar.
- [Balanza Comercial](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/balanza-comercial): Trade balance in USD, monthly, sourced from INDEC via datos.gob.ar.
- [PIB (Producto Interno Bruto)](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/pib): GDP in current USD, annual, from the World Bank.
- [PIB per cápita](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/pib-per-capita): GDP per capita in USD, annual, from the World Bank.
- [Población](https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/poblacion): Total population, annual, from the World Bank.

## Analysis Tools

- [Comparación Presidencial](https://indicadores.ar/comparacion-presidencial): Side-by-side comparison of economic indicator performance across Argentine presidential terms.
- [Calculadora de Valor Real](https://indicadores.ar/valor-real): Inflation-adjusted value calculator — input a past peso amount and date to see its equivalent in today's pesos.
- [Rendimiento de Inversiones](https://indicadores.ar/rendimiento-inversiones): Compare returns across plazo fijo, dollar, UVA, and other instruments over custom date ranges.
- [Simulador de Créditos UVA](https://indicadores.ar/creditos-uva): UVA mortgage simulator with historical UVA index evolution and bank rate comparison.
- [Calculadora de Dólares](https://indicadores.ar/calculadora): Convert between pesos and all dollar types (oficial, blue, MEP, CCL, tarjeta, cripto) at current rates.
- [Presupuesto Nacional](https://indicadores.ar/en-que-se-gastan-mis-impuestos): Government budget breakdown by category.

## Data Sources

All data is sourced from official and institutional APIs:

| Indicator | Source | API / Method |
|-----------|--------|--------------|
| Monetary base, reserves, inflation (CPI), CER, UVA, ICL, BADLAR, plazo fijo, M2 | BCRA (Banco Central de la República Argentina) | api.bcra.gob.ar REST API |
| Trade balance | INDEC (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos) | datos.gob.ar series API |
| Primary fiscal result | Ministerio de Economía de Argentina | datos.gob.ar series API |
| GDP, GDP per capita, population | World Bank | api.worldbank.org |
| Country risk (EMBI+) | Ámbito Financiero | mercados.ambito.com |
| Dollar exchange rates (oficial, blue, MEP, CCL, mayorista) | Infobae / market data | Web scraping |
| MERVAL, S&P 500, MELI, YPF, AAPL, TSLA | Yahoo Finance | query1.finance.yahoo.com |
| US inflation (CPI-U) | Federal Reserve (FRED) | api.stlouisfed.org |
| Brazilian Real (BRL/ARS) | Open Exchange Rates / AwesomeAPI | open.er-api.com, awesomeapi.com.br |

Update frequency: every 2 hours for all indicators. Bulletin articles are checked every 15 minutes.

## How to Use This Site

Each indicator page at https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos/[indicator] provides:
- Current value with daily, weekly, and monthly percentage changes.
- Interactive historical chart with adjustable date ranges.
- Full data series going back decades for most indicators (e.g., monetary base since 1990, country risk since 1987).

The main hub at https://indicadores.ar/indicadores-economicos displays all indicators grouped by category (exchange rates, monetary, inflation, interest rates, fiscal, stocks) with sparkline charts and latest values.

Historical dollar lookups are available at https://indicadores.ar/cotizacion-dolar/[YYYY-MM-DD] for any date with available data.

## API and Data Access

### Economic Indicators Summary
`GET https://indicadores.ar/api/economic-indicators/summary`
Returns all tracked indicators with their latest values, units, sources, and last three data points. Response is JSON. Cached for 30 minutes. Access is restricted to same-origin requests.

### Historical Price Calculator
`GET https://indicadores.ar/api/historical-price?amount={number}&fromDate={YYYY-MM-DD}&toDate={YYYY-MM-DD}&type={dollar_official|dollar_blue}&mode={inflation|conversion|evolution}`
Calculates historical value conversions using dollar exchange rate series. Modes: `inflation` (peso equivalent over time), `conversion` (pesos to dollars at a given date), `evolution` (time series of value changes). Cached for 5 minutes.

### Article Search
`GET https://indicadores.ar/api/search?q={query}&limit={number}`
Full-text search across all processed bulletin articles. Returns article metadata including title, summary, publication date, and slug.

### Budget Data
`GET https://indicadores.ar/api/budget?ejercicio={YYYY}`
Government budget data by fiscal year, grouped by category.

## Official Bulletin Coverage

Indicadores Argentina also provides AI-generated summaries of Argentina's official government bulletins:
- [Boletín Oficial Nacional](https://indicadores.ar/boletin-nacional): Federal government decrees, resolutions, and regulations — checked every 15 minutes.
- [Boletín Oficial de Buenos Aires](https://indicadores.ar/boletin-buenos-aires): Buenos Aires province official bulletin — updated daily.
- [Boletín Oficial de CABA](https://indicadores.ar/boletin-caba): Buenos Aires city official bulletin.

Articles are searchable at https://indicadores.ar/buscar and browsable by date at https://indicadores.ar/articulos-por-fecha.

## Company Data API (for developers and AI agents)

Indicadores Argentina offers a commercial REST API and an MCP server with structured data on
~1.5M Argentine companies: registry identification, directors and shareholders, corporate events
from the Official Bulletins of all 24 jurisdictions (incorporations, mergers, bankruptcies),
BCRA credit status, bounced checks, government contracts and sanctions.

- Documentation and free API key (100 free credits, no card): https://indicadores.ar/api-empresas
- API reference (endpoints, parameters, examples): https://indicadores.ar/api-empresas/docs
- OpenAPI 3 spec (JSON): https://indicadores.ar/openapi.json
- OpenAPI 3 spec (YAML): https://indicadores.ar/openapi-v1.yaml
- REST base URL: `https://indicadores.ar/v1` (auth: `api-key` header). Errors are always JSON with
  a stable `error` slug, plus `ayuda` (human hint) and `docs` fields where useful.
- **MCP server (Model Context Protocol), for AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor:**
  `https://indicadores.ar/mcp` (streamable HTTP transport; auth: `Authorization: Bearer <api-key>`;
  tool listing is open, tool calls require the key). Tools: ficha_empresa, buscar_empresas,
  buscar_dirigentes, ficha_persona, buscar_llamados, ficha_llamado, buscar_adjudicaciones,
  buscar_importadores, serie_economica, inflacion_entre_fechas, convertir_montos,
  series_disponibles, sugerencias, saldo_creditos.
- **Public procurement:** `/v1/llamados` lists calls for tenders one row per procurement process
  (circulars and extensions are its history), filterable by jurisdiction (`nacional`, `caba`,
  `pba`, any province), organizations, keywords in the object and a start date; `/v1/llamado` is
  one process with its timetable, participation link and publication history; and
  `/v1/adjudicaciones` lists contracts awarded to companies by organization, text, CUIT, date
  range and jurisdiction.
- **Economic series, free with the same key (0 credits):** official, blue, MEP and CCL dollar
  (MEP since 2018, CCL since 2013), monthly CPI since 1943, UVA, ICL, CER, country risk, BADLAR and
  fixed-term rates. REST endpoints `/v1/serie` (daily or monthly average/close), `/v1/inflacion`
  (chained CPI between two months), `/v1/convertir` (peso amounts of different months to dollars
  of each month or to today's pesos) and `/v1/series` (catalog).
- MCP discovery metadata: https://indicadores.ar/.well-known/mcp.json

## Use-case guides (who this is for)

Guides explaining how each profession uses the company data, with the concrete workflows:

- [Lawyers and law firms](https://indicadores.ar/casos-de-uso/abogados): counterparty due diligence, current authorities, insolvency signals, corporate networks.
- [Accountants](https://indicadores.ar/casos-de-uso/contadores): CUIT and tax-status verification, commercial credit risk, client monitoring, newly incorporated companies as leads.
- [Notaries (escribanos)](https://indicadores.ar/casos-de-uso/escribanos): pre-deed checks, published corporate acts history, signers' other companies.
- [Banks, fintech and lenders](https://indicadores.ar/casos-de-uso/entidades-financieras): KYB onboarding, credit scoring with BCRA data, early distress signals, portfolio monitoring via API/MCP.
- [Importers, exporters and customs brokers](https://indicadores.ar/casos-de-uso/comercio-exterior): who imports which product, prospecting with verified contacts, competitive intelligence.
- [Journalists and researchers](https://indicadores.ar/casos-de-uso/periodistas): person-to-company networks, state contractors, officials' asset declarations, alerts.

## Contact

- Email: contacto@indicadores.ar (data corrections, bulk access, press): https://indicadores.ar/contacto
- Legal notice and privacy policy (Ley 25.326): https://indicadores.ar/aviso-legal