Based on the guidelines established by the Colombian legal system for land, addresses the planning and management tool "Partial Plan", under a sociopolitical perspective that allows conceived as a practice of power on the ground with in the planning processes urban. From this point of view, this instrument not only meet technical requirements but social conditions that establish power relations and interests of various stake holder to determine their formulation and implementation in specific portions of municipal territories of strategic importance for the existence of current land uses or by projecting the min to the future.