摘要：The theme approached in this article discusses the criteria for regionalization in order to the strategic planning. The central objective is to contribute to subsidies to increase debate about regional development strategic planning. That is an essay, because it intends to improve knowledge about important aspects of the theories to the theme comprehension, specially, when discussing development strategies, however, uses data from two empirical studies to support the assumptions placed. A question orients the debate: from the strategic view, how must be defined de interest region? Standing out that the question requires further study for the correct answer, however, that is a key when intends to prepare sustainable development strategies. After a bibliographic research and the empiric data analysis, it is concluded that the use of fixed frontiers and a priori defined to region delimitation they can bring limitations to the development strategies, especially because they make it difficult to learn the reality.
