Introduction.

This article results from the worry for social and environmental issues in the search for acknowledging diversity as a richness of the social to present environment of humanity.

Objective.

Among its objectives, there is to present an approximation to social, environmental and cultural realities of indigenous communities in Latin America and, specifically, in Colombia, those ancestral communities living in La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (SNSM)2.

Materials and methods.

In the socio-education environmental analysis, the methodology has been doubly reflexive dialogues, with contributions of ethnography and symbolic interactionism, having the community in its territory as a referent, because in that place, individuals are inserted; they belong to that territory and interact with different elements of nature; they have a better connection with such a population due to their approach to their social environmental and cultural realities.

Results.

As a relevant aspect, it was concluded that: Indigenous communities for several centuries were subject to invisibility conditions, a situation which has been partially overcome due to organizational changes and to permanent fights of people; in the last twenty-five years, it has been noted that education implemented in indigenous communities has played an important role in its configuration and survival as people, since it keeps its social cohesion and balance relations with nature; for this reason, the acknowledgment of their population dynamics is very important in this type of process.

Conclusion.

Finally, it can be stated that education being implemented in indigenous communities plays an important role in configuration and survival as people, since it keeps social cohesion and balance relations with nature.