Abstract Thermal recovery techniques such as CSS (Cyclic Steam Stimulation) induce significant changes in the stress path at the reservoir formation due to the induced thermal stresses in the wellbore and surrounding area. The understanding of phenomena regarding these stress paths is crucial to ensure safe operation and optimization of well productivity. Therefore, stress path analysis in CSS entails a challenge related to the number of focal points throughout the reservoir in which the stress paths should be studied. The reduction on the number of focal points is an advantageous step to ensure the appropriate analysis in extensive reservoirs with multiple sands and layers with different geomechanical and yield parameters. In the proposed grouping strategy, temperature and pore pressure are found to be key variables when determining the sets of stress paths with a common phenomenological trending behavior. In the current case study located in Middle Magdalena Valley basin, this grouping strategy allows a comprehensive analysis of 3 sets of stress path strategically located on the borehole wall, inside and outside the steam front with the aid of numerical simulation software (CMG). Considering that stress paths usually represent a single focal point behavior within the reservoir, once this grouping strategy is implemented, an analysis of the whole reservoir is simultaneously performed during CSS.