This article reflects on the Küme Mongen, a notion intrinsic to the ancestral wisdom of the Mapuche people, which alludes to the alternatives of life and coexistence in relation to the concept of development. From a historical-critical approach we approach the evolution of the concept of development and its link to the küme mongen, as well as the repercussion that the valuation of this paradigm can have for a good coexistence with all living things. As a result, on the one hand, despite the contextual and dynamic character of the category of development, it reinforces the dimensions of capital and representing another form of economic colonization of indigenous peoples. On the other hand, the küme mongen implies resisting the hegemony of development from the hegemony of Capital, through the material and immaterial territorial dimensions that would imply valuing and updating socio-cultural practices of inhabiting and coexisting in the cosmos.