  In this work, we estimate the background components in muography using the
MuTe: a hybrid muon telescope composed of two subdetectors -a scintillator
hodoscope and a Water Cherenkov Detector (WCD). The hodoscope records the
trajectories of particles crossing the telescope, while the WCD measures their
energy loss. The MuTe hodoscope reconstructs 3841 different directions with an
angular resolution of 32 mrad for an inter-panel distance of 2.5 m. The spatial
resolution can reach $\sim$25.6 m assuming an 800 m distance to the target. The
WCD measures the deposited energy from 50 MeV to 1.5 GeV with a resolution of
0.72 MeV.
  MuTe discriminates muography background sources such as: upward coming muons,
scattered muons, the soft component of Extensive Air Showers (EAS), and
particles arriving simultaneously. They are filtered by using measurements of
deposited energy (WCD) and Time-of-Flight. The WCD differentiates single muons,
electrons/positrons, and multiparticle events. On the other hand, the ToF
measurements allow us to estimate the muon momentum establishing an energy
threshold to decrease the background contribution of scattered muons. Upward
coming muons are rejected by means of the particle arrival direction determined
by the ToF sign.
  We concluded that near 36% of the recorded events belong to the
electromagnetic component (electrons and positrons), roughly 30.4% is caused by
multiple particle events that arrive with time differences < 100 ns and the
last 34% are caused by muons. The muonic soft component (< 1 GeV/c) represents
46% of the single-muon events. The upward going particles add up the 22% of the
total flux crossing the MuTe.
