Registro Civil

Looks up a Colombian birth civil registry and returns the office it was inscribed at, its serial and inscription date, matched by first surname, first name, sex and date of birth. POST /co/registro-civil/birth-record/v1

Field	Type	Notes
`first_surname`	string	Required. First surname (primer apellido).
`first_name`	string	Required. First given name (primer nombre).
`sex`	enum	Required. `M` (masculino) or `F` (femenino).
`birth_date`	string	Required. Date of birth, yyyy-mm-dd (year 1900 or later).
`second_surname`	string	Optional. Second surname (segundo apellido).
`second_name`	string	Optional. Second given name (segundo nombre).

curl https://api.croma.run/co/registro-civil/birth-record/v1 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CROMA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
        "first_surname": "PEREZ",
        "first_name": "JUAN",
        "sex": "M",
        "birth_date": "1990-01-01"
      }'

Field	Notes
`found`	`true` when a birth registry matches; `false` when none does (then `records` is empty).
`records`	The matching civil registries. One exact match returns a single, fully populated record.
`records[].serial`	Serial printed on the civil registry.
`records[].document_number`	NUIP / NIP / Tarjeta de Identidad on the record, when listed.
`records[].full_name`	The record’s names and surnames joined.
`records[].sex`	Sex as the register reports it.
`records[].record_type`	Kind of civil registry (`REGISTRO CIVIL DE NACIMIENTO`).
`records[].registration_office`	Office the registry was inscribed at. Present on an exact match; `null` on a row from a multi-record list.
`records[].registered_at`	Inscription date (yyyy-mm-dd), or `null`.

A person with no digitized birth registry is not a 404; it’s a normal 200 with found: false and an empty records list. Birth serials were digitized progressively from around 1970.

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