Hybrid systems, which combine discrete and continuous dynamics, requirequality modeling languages to be either described or analyzed. The ConcurrentConstraint paradigm (ccp) is an expressive declarative paradigm, characterizedby the use of a common constraint store to communicate and synchronizeconcurrent agents. In this paradigm, the information is stated in the form ofconstraints, in contrast to the variable/value style typical of imperativelanguages. Several extensions of ccp have been proposed in order to modelreactive systems. One of these extensions is the Timed Concurrent ConstraintLanguage (tccp) that adds to ccp a notion of discrete time and new features tomodel time-out and preemption actions. The goal of this paper is to explore theexpressive power of tccp to describe hybrid systems. We introduce the languageHy-tccp as a conservative extension of tccp, by adding a notion of continuoustime and new constructs to describe the continuous dynamics of hybrid systems.In this paper, we present the syntax and the operational semantics of Hy-tccptogether with some examples that show the expressive power of our new language.