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Colombia is a country with national policies, in order to manage, direct and guide necessary actions to treat solid waste and reduce the negative environmental impacts that these generated after their disposition. These policies are consistent with international guidelines, and it is from them that efforts are made to reduce world consumption of primary energy, thus generating interest in the potential use of biomass as a source alternative energy. The biochemical methane potential (BMP) is a test used to characterize the raw materials in trials related to the optimization of anaerobic digestion and co-digestion; it allows to find the type of substrate and co-substrate with the greatest methane potential production. This study focuses on the evaluation of the production of methane through the anaerobic process of digestion and co-digestion using three different available substrates in Colombia, of which there is very few information on the methane production potential (cocoa shell and pods), along with other common waste (organic fraction of municipal solid waste and pig manure). This evaluation was realized applying the BMP test to each individual substrate and six mixtures of these substrates; anaerobic processes of digestion and co-digestion were carried out, by testing with batch reactors of 250 mL, in mesophilic conditions (32ºC-36ºC), obtaining the BMP of each substrate and of the mixtures. To these residues, a physical-chemical characterization was realized prior the BMP test, which was determined: values of solid volatile, total solids, organic matter and nitrogen Kjeldahl. With the obtained characterization six mixtures were prepared to evaluate …