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The present study was carried out in the municipality of Compostela, Nayarit; in collaboration with the XL City Council of this city and the Academic Unit of Tourism of the Autonomous University of Nayarit. The purpose was to develop an inventory of tourism resources as a strategy for the development of sustainable tourism in nine communities in the south and north of this municipality. For this, the methodology shown in the manual for the formulation of the inventory of tourism resources at the national level edited by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism MINCETUR 2008 in Lima, Peru was used. The instruments that were applied to the nine key informants of the communities for the collection of the data were the technical sheet on the facilitating resources and providers of tourist services and the semi-structured interview for the classification of the natural tourist resources of the categories specified in the manual. The type of research was descriptive and exploratory with a qualitative approach. The subjects who participated in this study were nine community links which represented the intentional sample. In the results obtained, it was recorded that in the nine rural communities there are viable natural and cultural resources for the practice of alternative tourism such as ecotourism, rural tourism, mining, gastronomy, ethnotourism, adventure tourism and sports among others; Likewise, productive projects were detected that can contribute to the development in each community according to the inventory that reactivates the economic situation and improves the standard of living and well-being of the inhabitants.