The way in which Colombia inserted into de international markets at the end of the nineteenth century is of interest due to the effect that this had in the formation of its socioeconomic regions. The insertion was carried out from an economic model that depended on the exportation of agricultural a nd forestry products to the ndustrialized countries. This would imply the use of vast areas of the territory in order to respond to this demand, resulting in socioeconomic transformations such as the way to occupy, appropriate and order the geographical space . Therefore, the territorial disposition inherited form the colonial period would be modified as a result of the advance of this process. Thereby, during the transition period of the nineteenth to the twentieth century, in Magdalena conditions were giv en so to a region emerge in this space from the cultivation of cocoa, tobacco and finally bananas. This would imply the adoption of the particular way in which labor, land and capital were appropriated which characterized and differentiated this region from the rest of the Colombian Caribbean. However, the scope of this process was limited due to the restrictions and contradictions present in the adopted productive model, as to the particular circumstances of backwardness and weakness of the State that accompany this rocess.