A geografia das cidades e das vilas no Amazonas: o caso de Tonantins e São Francisco de Tonantins

Abstract

Understand a city and a village in the Amazon urban context is a major challenge. Doing so from their duties within the urban network is an even greater challenge. And it is in this universe that this dissertation is inserted. Raising a discussion in order to understand the city of Tonantins and São Francisco de Tonantins village, through the analysis of their roles in the production of the urban network of the upper Solimões River, in the Amazonas State. The discussion covers qualitative and quantitative information, divided into four chapters. As the source of information is mainly from in loco data collection carried out in 2015 (February, May, October, November and December). Which was used for intensive direct observation of the local daily lives, semi-structured interviews applied to political and civil leaders, and analysis of documents from the public and private sectors. The chapters are as follow: (1) A study of the municipality of Tonantins focusing mainly on the host-city and the village of São Francisco de Tonantins, with description of natural, human and historical formation, from monographic analysis used in classical geography of Pierre Monbeig (1908-1987). (2) Characterizing Tonantins in terms of its relationship with the Village São Francisco de Tonantins, and other human settlements in the region, based on the analysis of Castells's network (2008) and Correa's urban network, (2011). (3 e 4) A discussion that highlights the commercial fishing organization, production and trade, as the variable that will enable understanding Tonantins in the production of urban network in your region, this time using the Amazon urban analysis prospects of Schor and Oliveira (2011). With the results of this work are expected both to contribute to the objectives of the case study, as the theoretical and methodological perspectives of urban research in the Amazon. Thus, in the case study, it is concluded that (1) Tonantins and São Francisco de Tonantins are articulated in a set of urban networks with flows that date back the colonial period; and also flows in international territory; (2) the analysis of variables served especially to understand what may be one of the Amazon's urban dynamic cities; (3) the analysis of the fishery structure deepened as Tonantins through this activity, it remains connected to the network. And on the methodological perspective, it is concluded that (1) the more that the cities in the Amazon are viewed at a distance, even further is being to really know what they are; and (2) the city itself reveals what is without inserting it in ratings until it even fits.