Several authors claim that a large number of Latin American countries are reprimarizing their economies. Colombia has  been  no  exception,  and  although  traditionally  based  its  productive  apparatus  in  primary  sector  activities  such  as  agriculture,  logging,  minerals  and  hydrocarbons,  in  the  last  two  decades  can  be  seen  a  sharper  reprimarized  phenomenon  to  the  sector  mining  and  energy.  Research  related  to  the  implications  of  the  extractive,  economically

speaking, broadly focus on economic growth as a variable of interest. In this sense, the present study seeks to provide arguments to those criticisms about the advantages in economic matters has left the extractive industry in Colombia.

Firstly shows the evidence that reflect the type of Extractivism implemented in the country, focusing on the factors that have promoted, and ultimately results in macroeconomic terms obtained by it, specifically in economic growth, demand of  local  labor and  deteriorating  terms  of  trade.  The  paper  ends  with  some  conclusions  drawn  from  the  results  of  the investigation.