As redes comerciais da pesca e o urbano no amazonas: o caso da Vila de Copatana, município de Jutaí – AM

Abstract

The Amazon in general, in terms of human occupation, is known as a demographic void, but it is known today that this discourse does not proceed. There are historical records that prove that the Amazon was always occupied by people who lived in the region. The Amazonian floodplains were so populated that these peoples migrated to populate the rest of the South American continent, as Fausto states (2010, 31). "From their floodplains, as rich as they were fought by an ever-growing population, would have led to migratory waves that would populate the South America¨. In this imaginary context of "demographic", we are struck by the contemporary process of urbanization to which this biome belongs. In this process the Vilas in Alto Solimões / Amazonas, with a total population of more than 1.000 inhabitants. In this work we will deal with the Copatana Village, located in the Alto Solimões / Amazonas microregion belonging to the municipality of Jutaí. The region has agriculture as the main source of income, however, it was the fishing bias that best describes the relationship between the city and the village. In this sense, the main objective of this work was to understand, through commercial fishing networks, the role of Copatana Village in the structuring of the urban network of the Alto Solimões / Amazonas microregion. In order to achieve this objective, it was extremely important to implement monitoring. This was one of the options we thought and carried out as one of the ways of collecting primary data, in this case, fishing. Tracking was inspired in the works of VanVliet et al. (2015) and TavaresPinto (2015), both conducted their research on wild animal hunting networks on the Brazil- Peru-Colombia triple border. Due to the lack of specific secondary data for the site, the field work carried out in the town of Copatana was crucial for the research and understanding of the processes that occur. At the end of the research, it was concluded that the commercial fishing network and the urban network in Amazonas are totally interconnected from the town of Copatana, in the municipality of Jutaí, to cities like Tabatinga and Manaus or other cities outside the state and the country through commercial fishing networks.