Resumo: Mexican government created the program called Magical Towns (Pueblos Mágicos, PM in Spanish), which is associated to the sustainable tourism. The purpose of this research is to synthesize and compare the scientific knowledge about said sustainable development in the PM, throughout a review of 73 academic documents that accomplished the inclusion criteria. It was found that much of the literature on the theme about the PM is included in the sociocultural dimension; most of the studies correspond to the center of the country, and not all of the PM have been studied from the perspective of sustainable development.
