AbstractThe paper is concerned with a priori estimates of positive solutions of quasilinear elliptic systems of equations or inequalities in an open set of {\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{N}} associated to general continuous nonlinearities satisfying a local assumption near zero. As a consequence, in the case {\Omega=\mathbb{R}^{N}}, we obtain nonexistence theorems of positive solutions. No hypotheses on the solutions at infinity are assumed.