The problem that underpins the research is: How is the territory being articulated by the different actors in conflict, around the Mozambique Dugongo S.A company in the Matutuíne District, in Maputo Province, and how do the affected groups seek to emulate the "official" logic of production/meaning/use of the territory? The fieldwork combined the techniques of observation, (in)formal conversations, photographs and in-depth interviews with the different actors involved took place in April and May 2022. The work was guided by decolonial theory, which recognizes the situated nature of knowledge production, historical and social inequalities and the power relations that structure this process (Rastrepo; Rojas, 2010). In this way, producing a reflection/enunciation based on the Decolonial theoretical framework implies identifying, making visible and encouraging places of exteriority, other practices (ways of being, relationships and their intersectionality), forms of insurrection and processes of collective disidentification with power/knowledge (Aparicio; Blaser, 2018; Chizenga, 2020; 2022). We conclude that there are different forms of meaning of the territory and, despite the official forms instituted by the state and its developmentalist logic, linked to international capital, represented by Mozambique Dugongo S.A company and the local population, affected by the developmentalist logic, in their processes of contesting the company and the Mozambican State, their ways of signifying the territory trigger other symbolic and ontological elements, revealing other forms of territoriality besides the "official" one and, in doing so, the territory becomes a device for confronting and claiming the specificity of their existence.