This article is part of a historiographic research of Manuela Sáenz. The research was presented as part of the degree requierement to earn the title "historian" at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. The article compares, quantitatively and qualitatively, the information and explainations contained regarding the life of Manuela, and to research the manner in which ideology rethents her importance, the thematic movement over time and reiterative use of certain works as sources..