Duplex stainless steels (DSS) have microstructure with approximately equal phase balance of ferrite (delta) and austenite (gamma). Exposure of these materials to high temperatures around 1000 degrees C and 1100 degrees C results in significant microstructural changes. These changes can vary from the volume fraction of the phases present, chemical composition, to precipitation of intermetallic phases and orientation relationship present in the material. Depending on the volume fraction and phase morphology, there will be different responses to a particular corrosive environment, including hydrochloric. The chemical composition of the material can influence the formation of the intermetallic phases. And the local impoverishment of certain elements influences the process of repassivation of the material. Under practical conditions of welding and heat treatment, some microstructural properties of the material may be subject to changes, including resistance to pitting corrosion. The materials studied in the present work were UNS S32304 (lean Duplex) and UNS S32750 (super duplex), both subjected to heat treatments at 1000 degrees C and 1100 degrees C for 24 h followed by quenching in water, the same underwent corrosion testing according to the ASTM G48-A standard. The present dissertation uses as a method of study the microstructural characterization through the technique of Scanning Electron Microscopy by means of electron backscattered diffraction (SEM/EBSD) to determine the Kurdjumov-Sachs (KS) and Nishiyama-Wassermann (NW) orientation relationships, correlating them with the effect of heat treatment on the studied steels. The determination of the volumetric fraction of the phases as a function of the heat treatment temperature was carried out. It was identified through energy dispersive spectroscopy X-ray the influence of the chemical composition on the material for corrosion initiation. light optical microscopy was performed to analyze the morphological evolution and identify the main and intermetallic phases. It was verified the precipitation of the Sigma phase (sigma) in UNS S32750, and the verification that the pits started at the secondary austenite and σ interface. Through the SEM/EBSD using a qualitative and semi-quantitative analysis, it was found that the pit has as its preferred initiation site triple and/or multiple grain boundary junctions when the PREN (Pitting Resistance Equivalent Number) of the austenite and ferrite phases are close. However, due to the large variation in the PREN value between austenite and ferrite, some pits started in the phase with the lowest PREN value.