Metropolitan regions of Colombia: gravitation and disarticulation as key rules of the current territorial organization

Abstract From the beginning, the need for a new territorial model of state arises, on the one hand, from the obstacles to development, among which the most evident is administrative corruption and, on the other hand, three relevant experiences that promote the virtues of regionalization based on metropolitan regions. Finally, the viability of local autonomy without greater tax burdens for the population if they were incurred with fairness in real estate taxation.