This paper shows an outline of the main elements and processes that must be taken into account for the study of complex system of sources that holds the Colombian legal system.Designed, therefore, from the study of particular legal system, complete with a surreptitious dialogue theoretical concepts more abstract level, show that the classical representation of the source system from the point of view pyramid clearly does not hold the ability to explain background model complexity of existing local sources.Therefore, to approach the study of this model becomes imperative to bring together various elements and procedures, which in most cases have been, in the case referred to, passed in silence or have been sectioned so by law theorists .