The purpose of this research work is to analyze the land-use planning instruments in the lower Ica River basin, the relationship that exists with the agro-export activity and urban population activities. The first document reviewed was the National Strategic Planning Center, which establishes the plans, indicators and strategies at the national level, which are linked to the plans that each institution must develop in order to achieve the established goal. In the same way, the supporting technical instruments, territorial and urban management instruments were reviewed, where the PAT and the PDU were promulgated after presenting delays according to the published chronogram. At the beginning of the agroexport boom in the old valley, there was no control or supervision of water resources by the authorities, so the problem of water scarcity increased exponentially as the years went by. It wa...