Field experiments were conducted to study the water management and nitrogen fertilizing in rice (Oryzica-2) planted in a verticsoil (Typic Pellustert) of the river Cauca Valley (Colombia). There were used 18 treatments consisted in keeping a 5.0 cm water table depth in the soil, or saturating it during three growing stages of the rice plant; N fertilizer levels were 80, 120 and 160 kg f ha applied in a fractionated form. The highest yield in brown rice (8170 kg/ha) was with the treatment of 160 kg/ha, applying a 5.0 cm water table on soil during vegetative stage and keeping it after saturated until 14 days before cropping. PET water requirements were 1187 mm, and the K factors of 1.38, 1.53 and 1.48 from vegetative, reproductive and maturity stages respectively.