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In this essay, a dogmatic, normative, and jurisprudential analysis of the administrative act, its elements, characteristics, and legal effects was carried out. It is the legal instrument par excellence of public administration, developed by administrative law specialists, by the jurisprudence of the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, and whose legal basis is established in Law 38 of 2000, which approves the organic statute of the Attorney General's Office, regulates the general administrative procedure, and sets forth special provisions. The objective is to analyze the figure of the administrative act, its elements, attributes, doctrinal classification, and the effects it produces. In this sense, it is relevant to understand what an administrative act is and how it should be structured by public officials, as they are subject to the constitutional principle of legality; consequently, the content of an administrative act does not It must under no circumstances be issued in violation of the legal framework, and even less so by omitting some of its essential elements, such as the reasoning. For this reason, an examination is conducted of the different definitions of the administrative act, the elements and characteristics that stem from it, a brief classification of the most typical acts, and the point at which it takes effect.