During the last decades, the concepts of governability and governance have become important in the field of political theory and the various reflections and contributions relating to the strengthening of democracies worldwide. This article establishes a course of reading on the conceptual geography of the terms governability and governance, in the journey exposing, significant linkages with other fields of meaning and concepts within them, which enables a better understanding of these terms. Finally, we propose a rereading from complexity to enrich the meaning of governability and governance concepts. This contribution, from a epistemic dimension contributes not only to increase the density of semantic concepts but also provides a form of knowledge whose effect goes beyond the theoretical level, seeing expressed in public policies and their implementation in specific societies.