This research, makes an analysis about the creation of the Administrative and Planning Region (RAP), especially the RAPE - Central Region, to address the notion of development from administrative law, a situation resulting from the model of organization of the territory that establishes both the Political Constitution of Colombia of 1991, and Law 1454 of 2011 by which the Organic Law of Territorial Organization (LOOT) is issued. The present work analyzes the concepts of region, together with the notion of development in order to increase the understanding about the elements that the Constitution and the administrative law offer to the dynamics of development, to reach a better legal and administrative organization of the country. The components of the Law are also analyzed and some processes of citizen participation in local and regional issues are addressed to settle the notion of development following the constitutional mandate given to the Administrative and Planning Region, whose main objective is economic development and of the respective territory, all with the purpose of strengthening territorial decentralization and institutionalization in Colombia, which presents a challenge when analyzing the way in which regions and territories fit into this process, involving changes in the structures and dynamics of administrative law to guarantee the effectiveness of economic and social rights, and the inclusion of a different conception of the notion of development: ¿Does administrative law have to say something about development?
