Uso do território e dinâmicas territoriais na região da rodovia Santarém-Curuá-Una (Pa 370): o exemplo da realidade da comunidade Boa Esperança

Abstract

The understanding of the process of occupation of the Amazon goes through the analysis of the development policies implemented by the State in the region, starting in the 1960s. Within the scope of the set of actions focused, initially, on national integration, the opening of highways was a necessary subsidy to reach the proposed objectives, in addition to the formation of an urban network, as a logistical base of occupation. In this context, countless population nuclei, both induced and spontaneous, appear in the region, such as the Boa Esperança Community, in the municipality of Santarém, western Pará. In this context, this study aims to analyze the changes in the use and occupation of the territory in the Community of Boa Esperança, located in Santarém, western region of Pará, from the 1960s to 2020. bibliographic, journalistic and documentary revision and field research. The origin of the Boa Esperança community is related to the construction of PA-370 (Santarém-Curuá-Una) and the Sylvio Braga Hydroelectric Plant, also known as the Curuá-Una hydroelectric plant, works resulting from the demands of local politicians. There were three phases in its historical and territorial development process: a) Extractive; b) Formation and consolidation; Specialization in Production and Agribusiness. In this development process, the community underwent important transformations and was inserted in the logic of capitalist reproduction, and follows the trend of a process of urbanization and modernization of its productive activities inserted in a capitalist logic of accumulation and concentration of socially produced wealth.