Uma demarcação tradicional do espaço terrestre da vila de Caratateua-Bragança-Pa

Abstract

The present work is inserted in the scope of the Project "Social Uses of the Mangroves" - DCH-MPEG/MADAM. Its main objective is to present a profile of the distribution pattern of the several areas, identifying, defining and describing them in order to know the planning done by the community. The methodology was based on field work, with direct observation and the techniques used were: formal and informal interviews, life stories, visual record (photographs), and the elaboration of maps in a traditional way. The village studied is centered on the banks of the Caeté River in the town of Brangança-PA. It was observed that Caratateua displays a diversified profile in the spatial division, since it is traditionally constituted in urban and rural areas. In the rural zone, the central focus of the work, it was detected a great demand for deforested areas for the preparation of crops (cassava, corn, tobacco and others). It was also observed that 90% of the population in the rural zone has fields, the smallest of which are cultivated close to their homes, while the largest are located at a distance of approximately 3 km. The displacement of people to more distant areas, outside the limits of the village, occurs due to family inheritance, which is why they are preserved. According to them "the fence is imaginary, the reference of the limit is some tree and every neighbor respects it", but within this limit there are other smaller ones that they use as a place to accommodate the animals they raise. It is worth mentioning that according to them this demarcation is made by the population over time, from generation to generation, these actors who, in fact, play several social roles within the village as: fisherman/gatherer/farmer.