This article reconstructs the intellectual network that surrounded the edition and publication of Espiral de Artes y Letras a magazine founded in Bogotá by the Spanish exile Clemente Airó in 1944. It begins by considering the analysis of the magazine with a focus on intellectual networks, and aims to explain how the expansion of connections, from the initial links to the Colombian intellectual field to the Hispanic American scene, became a key strategy for sustaining one of the longest-living cultural projects of the country.