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Objective: to understand identity configuration features of a group of survivors from the Armero tragedy according to their ideological positions and their memory processes. Methodology: information was gathered over a two-year period, using ethnographic instruments such as field diaries, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and documentary reviews. The triangulation strategy was used for the analysis. Thirty-three people from Armero were interviewed nine in person and 24 remotely. In addition, two focus groups were conducted and archival material and information from the Facebook social network were analyzed. The purpose of the information gathering was to answer the following questions: Where are the survivors and what is their relationship with the process of memory? Results: findings show that survivors of Armero are dispersed throughout different areas of the Colombian territory. Their relationship with the process of memory can be analyzed in terms of two large groups. The first group was excluded from any possibility of social participation due to the conditions which uprooting and poverty have condemned them. The second group, in the work with and through memory, has found the possibility of advocacy with the State to achieve recognition and reparation. Conclusions: the dismantling of the territory in which life had been lived until 1985, the inadequate care of survivors, the impact of the catastrophic event on the existence of each person, among other factors, has made overcoming the trauma caused by this disruptive event difficult. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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