This article is the result of a research project entitled “Legal disquisitions about administrative silence in Colombia” carried out within the research group of social, political and legal studies law program at the Autonomous Caribbean University. An analysis of some aspects of the right of petition and the delicate and controversial issue of administrative silence is done in its different variants, highlighting some doctrinal conceptions of notable writers on administrative law as jurisprudence, which tend to explain and justify the rationale for such an institution. , And obviously, the position we took about this questions that were raised during the investigation. It is incredible that the few provisions included in the Administrative Code of the country, particularly those affecting the substantial negative silence and silence procedure, have allowed us to take more on the account about so interesting on discipline, having been really surprised, because it initially prepared as a simple test for a magazine or legal disclosure information eventually grew into a research project.