Drawing from a critical and systematic study of the regulations issued by four superintendencias, the legal stipulations that grant their powers and determine their internal organization, as well as the relevant case-law and doctrinal work, this article proposes a conceptual map of the various constitutional flaws present on the superintendencias' legal framework. It is affirmed that those flaws, mostly common to all of the analysed superintendencias, varies in their type and seriousness, some being applicable across the spectrum of the superintendencias' legal powers, whereas some are more closely related with one of their traditional activities (inspection, regulation and sanctioning/judging).