Tourism is increasingly becoming one of the most important sectors of the global economy with the mobilization of thousands of people across borders. Each can be a potential vector of hundreds of illnesses and affectations for the offering population, however, there seem to be few control alternatives that are structured with the purpose of mitigating the risks to which these communities can be exposed on the part of your visitors The municipality of Jerico in the Colombian Antioquia southwest, lived in 2013 a tourist explosion as a result of the canonization of the first Colombian saint, and with this, the arrival in the municipality of thousands of people of national and international scope who wanted visit the birthplace of Santa Laura; for this reason, the municipality also experienced a series of changes that could be evidenced after the analysis of the databases of the different municipal institutions, and that could correspond to the massive presence of people in the municipality such as, the increase in pathologies of interest in public health, excessive generation of solid waste, problems of public order and socio-environmental impacts among others, which deserved to be analyzed to propose the development of prevention and mitigation alternatives seeking the protection of the offeror population in the hand of sustainability environmental and social This study was developed with information from the years 2011 and 2012 (before the canonization of Santa Laura) and 2013 - 2014 (after the canonization).