摘要:This quantitative, cross-sectional descriptive research aims to establish the demographic characteristics and reasons related to forced displacement of 200 families living in the department of Quindío in the period 2009-2013, for which a sociodemographic characterization tab was applied. The study found that the leadership of the home is especially on the young adult (42 %), women (63.5 %), with a partner (34 %), primary education (50%), mixed ethnicity (87 %), of rural origin (72.5 %), from the Valle del Cauca (22 %), Cauca (8.5 %) and Choco (8.5 %). 82 % are between 1 and 3 individual displacements, and 88% have been intra-displaced. The main reason is the threat of death and / or psychological abuse (47 %) and the death of a family member (30 %).