In recent years, the educational system has employed strategies to strengthen and measure teachers' emotional intelligence and professionalism due to their importance in generating the fulfillment of the development of student learning. Therefore, the objective was to establish the relationship between emotional intelligence and professional capacity in educational institutions in rural areas. The methodology was quantitative, non-experimental, and descriptive-correlational, considering a population of 80 teachers. The results infer that 70.0% of the teachers have a favorable perception of emotional intelligence and 75.0% of them have a favorable perception of professional capacity (r= 0.194). Therefore, it is concluded that there is a relationship between emotional intelligence and professional ability.