Given the importance of studying regional unemployment, the purpose of this article is to present the results of contrasting the hypothesis of the existence of common trends and processes of convergence between the rates of unemployment in Colombia in the period 2001–2010. To this end, the article uses cointegration methodology and the monthly series of DANE surveys of households. The article concludes that the series of unemployment rates in the metropolitan areas maintains a stable long-term relation between them. However, it is evident that the relation is not rigid, because employment variables are subject to exogenous shocks that temporarily alter its equilibrium path.