One of the main difficulties a reduced order method could face is the poor separability of the solution. This problem is common to both a posteriori model order reduction (Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, Reduced Basis) and a priori (Proper Generalized Decomposition) model order reduction. Early approaches to solve it include the construction of local reduced order models in the framework of POD. We present here an extension of local models in a PGD -and thus, a priori-context. Three different strategies are introduced to estimate the size of the different patches or regions in the solution manifold where PGD is applied. As will be noticed, no gluing or special technique is needed to deal with the resulting set of local reduced order models, in contrast to most POD local approximations. The resulting method can be seen as a sort of a priori manifold learning or non-linear dimensionality reduction technique. Examples are shown that demonstrate pros and cons of each strategy for different problems.KEY WORDS: local model order reduction, proper generalized decomposition, kernel principal component analysis, non linear dimensionality reduction.