Os canoeiros do ambiente urbano-fluvial: entre o porto da Ceasa e Careiro da Várzea

Abstract

The waterfront city of Manaus extends from the mouth of the Tarumã river to the Puraquequara river. For a distance of 43 km long, at the left of the Negro river there are various ports, public or private, other small and private, generally improvised and environmentally degraded in the interim between the river and the city move the daily lives of manauense and people living in towns surrounding the capital. Among them, there is the port of Ceasa, located on the East Zone of Manaus. It composes and is part of the BR 319, that connects the capital till Porto Velho, and other regions of the Amazon and Brazil. In this thesis, we are focusing our attention to the work of the brigade leading the small boats typically regional that transport people and goods in an intense back-and-forth between the port of Ceasa till another one in the city of Careiro da Várzea, called Km 0. Our intention is to characterize the daily work environment and this segment of workers who live in the world of informality. We seek to understand its identity, its importance to the mobility of people and regional economic life. This port has a great importance in the movement of products done in the Industrial Pole of Manaus PIM, because of the ferries that across the Negro river towards the port of Careiro da Várzea, the marketing of regional products and the departure and arrival of the boats carrying passengers towards Manaus and cities surrounding the capital and vice versa. It is a place of confluence of these movements of intense rhythms during the day. Also, today is a territory occupied by dense business and the informal work where you can find everything: regional delicacies, fish and fruit that come from rural areas of the Amazon. In this environment are the leading canoe their boats in the movement back and forth under the sun and rain, facing the regional weather, with no fixed schedule and long hours in an urban river (in) sustainable and characterized by improvisation and the public neglect there demonstrated being stage of capacity of the Amazon man.