What a catastro number is in Puerto Rico, and how to find it

The first 11 digits are the parcel number, and the first six of them come from the grid of the cadastral maps, from the general sheet to the most detailed one.

A parcel can hold several properties, like the apartments in a building. That is why the full 14-digit number leads to one property, while the first 11 digits can cover several.

The number has no town code. Its first part is a sheet of a grid that covers the whole island.

• In the deed. Since 2012 the law requires a property's deed to include its catastro number.
• On the public parcel map of the government office that collects property tax. You can search by address (without the town or the ZIP code), by the owner's name, or by tapping the parcel on the map.

The finca number belongs to the public property registry, not to the tax map. The same property has both numbers.

The catastro number is for finding the property on the map and for property tax. The finca number is for knowing the legal owner and the charges on the property, and to look it up you also need the town or registry section where it is recorded.

• Type the address without the town and without the ZIP code.
• Search by the owner's name, starting with the last name.
• If the parcel was split or joined with another, it has a new number. The map keeps the parcel it came from.

In Flipeo PR you type the catastro number in the map's search box, and the property opens with its owner on record and its recorded sales.