ABSTRACT- At the end of the colonial period, the creóle sectors of New Granada integrate the fundamental categories of modern sciences and apply them to their reading of the country's geography. In this way, they acquire an autonomy which allows them to produce facts about the territory, apart from those of the European and Spanish scientists. At the same time, through scientific talk, they assert their social superiority over the natives, Afro Americans and metis. But the assertion of their creóle identity didn't come into conflict with their varied attachments towards Spain. Therefore the idea we propose here is that geographic knowledge at the end of the colonial period is not one of the causes of the independence process.