The present article aims to defend the thesis that the healthy environment has been configured in practice and with sufficient theoretical and normative bases as a fundamental right in the Colombian legal system, not only because of the decisions that the High Courts have made about it. but also for the great defense that it is done in different international instruments. Both legal and doctrinal sources will be observed to show this nature. Copyright (c) 2021 John Fernando Restrepo Tamayo, Sebastián Hurtado, Leonardo Vásquez