The purpose of this law is to create the category of municipalities "capital cities" and to adopt mechanisms to strengthen administrative decentralization. The special regime of the capital cities will be guided by the urban and territorial development guidelines, the territorial and urban planning processes that optimize the implementation of the urban development management, planning and financing instruments, in order to guarantee the use rational, equitable, productive and sustainable of the territory, in harmony with the objectives of human, social, economic and environmental development, according to the norms that govern the matter and in accordance with the national policy to strengthen the city system.