In the conception and application of cleaner production, diverse ways to interact with the territory as a physical space in which a social space is built, are included. This is the subject of this research work, made in the Bebara river, an affluent of Atrato river in the Choco province, Colombia. In it, the relation between traditional production practices and the ways to see, understand and apprehend the world of an African-Colombian community, is shown from a connection between the economic context and the symbolic world.