Suicide in Colombia is not considered to be of great consequence when compared with the world average. In the past decade a slight increase in the number of cases has been observed, mainly in some regions, such as the department of Narino. To analyze the phenomena a descriptive study was performed with the data from the crime observatory from Pasto, Ipiales, Tumaco, Tuquerres and La Union, from 2002 to 2007; these cities reported 393 suicides for this period. Of the total number of cases reported, 67.6% of the cases were men (the man: woman ratio was 2:1); the average age