Apontamento sobre a agrovila Leonardo D' Vinci e a reinvenção de seu cotidiano após a construção da hidrelétrica de Belo Monte

Abstract

The Transamazônica road and the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Power Plant (UHBM) represent much more than just two Mega projects of the Brazilian Federal Government, they turned a desire plan of a developmental way to the region into reality. It was thought since the 1950s in our nation. Among many others, there is a socio-historical, geographical and metaphorical link to the Leonardo D'Vinci agricultural village (LDAV), a district of Vitória do Xingu municipality, in the state of Pará. That is whay, this article aims to analyze the social cost of developmentalism process in the daily life of this community since it was settled as a result of the enormous Transamazônica road and "reborn" after forty-two years later, in the context of UHBM. In order to verify its impacts, interviews with local pioneers were carried out, as well as detailed documentary research was done. In addition to a bibliography research about the proposed theme was performed as well. The results of all these studies point to the occurrence of deep and accelerated social transformations mostly related from both direct and indirect cases of omissions caused by Belo Monte hydroelectric project. It is expected that the results of this present study contributes to further researches to better understand and describe the study of "Mega projects" in the Amazon area as well as studies of developmentalism impacts and its costs to the Amazon rainforest and its people.