The indiscriminate accumulation of waste materials of petrochemical origin has prompted research that leads to obtaining environmentally friendly materials using renewable raw materials. The objective of this thesis was to establish the process conditions for the extraction of microparticles of fique bagasse and the evaluation of the effect of their incorporation in a foamed material obtained from cassava starch.The extraction of the microparticles was carried out by means of a hydrolysis process with sulfuric acid using previously conditioned fique bagasse. To determine the process conditions, a 33 factorial design was run in which the acid concentration (5, 10 and 15%), temperature (70, 80 and 90 ° C) and time (3, 5 and 7h) of hydrolysis, obtaining a significant effect on the morphological, chemical and thermal properties, highlighting functional groups, morphology, color and degradation and melting temperatures characteristic of cellulose, with 10%, 70 ° C and 7h being the conditions that allowed obtaining the smallest size of particle.To determine the effect of the incorporation of the microparticles on the properties of the foams, a unifactorial design was evaluated with five levels of concentration of microparticles (0.0, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0 and 1.25%) in the mixture for obtaining foam, finding a significant effect on the properties of expansion index, density, compressibility and water absorption, being the 0.75% treatment the one that presented outstanding properties with respect to the other treatments. This indicates that fique bagasse in adequate concentrations has potential for use in the production and improvement of the properties of starch-based foams.