This article reflects on a study whose main objective is to describe the safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (CIH) of the Afro-Colombian communities of the South Pacific, constituted by ancestral practices and identity elements, transmitted most often orally from generation to generation. The interest of this subject corresponds to the need to promote the identity strengthening and the sense of belonging of the Afro-Colombian communities; in addition, to recognize the importance of culture in Colombian society, in a way that she continues to proclaim and safeguard multiculturalism. In this context, the first section will address some recent definitions of the CIH as a normative category; Then, some of the intangible cultural manifestations of the South Pacific region of Colombia are described. Finally, legal mechanisms are developed for its safeguarding, and some persistent problems that impede the protection of the ICP in Afro-descendant communities in the Colombian South Pacific will be outlined. The methodology used in the research that gives rise to the text is qualitative, with descriptive approach and exploratory scope. The tracking centered on documentary sources such as declarations of international organizations, primers and web documents of some Colombian ministries, norms, jurisprudence, press and specialized articles.