The purpose of the study is to analyze the characteristics of the environment for sustainable entrepreneurship in the economic development of SMEs. These represent a direction and amplitude of the action of an organization over time to meet the demands of the market and expectations, generating competitive advantages from the configuration of resources, within a challenging context. The research was oriented under the quantitative, descriptive, transactional field paradigm. The population was conformed by 72 SMEs of the parish Libertador, was sampled conformed by 42 managers. The results obtained show that the characteristics of the environment for sustainable entrepreneurship in the economic development of SMEs are presented with an average of 1.81 points, indicating according to the measurement scale that they are moderately present, which concludes that managers Of the SMEs of the municipality Baralt Venezuela in their management give little importance to the characteristics of the environment to apply strategies in order to boost the municipal economic increase.