The currently lack of comparative studies about the Colombian civil wars during the XIX century remain a challenge regarding the number and depth of their impact in our history. The usual consideration of these processes like a kind of perpetual fratricidal fights between their parties temporary suspended through weak political accords and reenacted thereafter is even the dominant assessment. The levels of fighting, the devastation produced in the population and the lethal violence are today aspects illresearched. The purpose of this essay is to contribute towards a better understanding of these