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The University of Córdoba committed to regional development proposes conceptual and methodological guidelines to advance subregionalization processes in order to reduce territorial imbalances, applicable to the solution of socio-spatial and economic problems that affect the territorial entities of the country. In compliance with its policies, the University of Córdoba has been linked to the subregionalization process of the Department of Atlántico, in such a way that it responds to the need to propose models of integral and orderly development with a prospective vision, which allows local administrators develop projects that generate departmental impact and that lead to the integration of the municipalities that comprise it.

The University of Córdoba, committed to regional development, prepares an analysis of the use and management practices of marine-coastal resources of the Colombian Caribbean. In particular, the study focuses on the analysis of the case of the Rincón del Mar district, municipality of San Onofre (Sucre). In the case at hand, marine-coastal resources are classified as: a) natural: biological, b) anthropic: of a human nature (based on the classification of the California Coastal Plan Conservation Commission) , 1975), and c) for their uses: fishing, forestry, tourism and recreational, cultural and intangible (Barragán, 2003); In addition, the actors that converge in the corregimiento are characterized and the management practices are analyzed, according to the uses and problems associated with those uses.

The content of this document is part of the FCB-12-16 project, funded by the Office of the Vice-Rector for Research and Extension, called Conflict Territories in the Colombian Caribbean and its borders 1980 - 2017, developed by the Urban-Regional Studies Research Group of the Colombian Caribbean, which is attached to the Department of Geography and Environment of the University of Córdoba. The investigation includes the territories that occupy the seven continental departments of the Colombian Caribbean, plus the territories of the Urabá Chocoano and Antioqueño, the lower Cauca, the northeast of Antioquia and the territories of the Catatumbo that were strongly affected by the armed conflict since 1980.

The regional, subnational and supranational analysis has been present in the conceptions of development in Latin America, especially between the sixties and seventy of the twentieth century. It is at this moment when it reaches its greatest importance, configuring a situation that would change with minimal expressions towards the decade of the nineties (Moncayo, 2004), from the hegemony of neoliberalism and promotion without limits of globalization. Between the 1960s and 1970s, the Latin American and Caribbean region experienced the acceleration of the processes of structural transformation of the economy and society, what which manifested itself in urban dynamics and field-city migrations, processes which stimulated significant growth of the main metropolises of the continent, such as Mexico, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro or Buenos Aires (Máttar and Riffo, 2015). From this dynamism began to increase the gaps of economic development and social between the different regions, marking spatial organization patterns unbalanced within Latin American countries, a situation that was sponsored by a protective State, which promoted a policy of creating growth or development poles based on the postulates of François Perroux. Thus, the concept of economic region is presented as a field of forces where producers and consumers operate, which relate to each other through flows of people and merchandise (Merchand, 2007).