The Public Registry of Panama was created by Law No. 13 of January 27, 1913 as a dependency of the Ministry of Government and Justice, during the first Administration of Doctor Belisario Porras.
The first Director of the Public Registry of Panama, which was previously called the General Registrar of Property, was Mr. Benjamín Quintero Álvarez, who held the position for 15 consecutive years from 1913 to 1928.
In 1999, through Law No. 3 of January 1999, it was created as an autonomous entity called the Public Registry of Panama, characterized by having legal personality, its own assets and internal autonomy, both administrative, functional, budgetary and financial.
Today, the Public Registry of Panama has new facilities at Headquarters and ten Regional offices nationwide, as well as a solid organizational structure with a view to providing better service in a timely and efficient manner, always complying with our motto of transparency and registry reliability.
Mission
We update, collect, integrate and guarantee the authenticity of the documents, titles or acts that must be registered to offer legal security of private property to users, in addition, we recover, keep and keep the valuable historical documentation of the country, maintaining a technological registration system , efficient, effective and innovative.
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To be the governing institution of the single property registry in Panama and archiving of historical documents, for the benefit of national and foreign users.