Territorialização da pecuária na Amazônia paraense: uma análise na região de integração do Guamá, estado do Pará

Abstract

The advance of cattle ranching in the Amazon is expressed in extensive fractions of the regional territory. From the 1960s onwards, this phenomenon will become more intense. In the case of the state of Pará, several fronts have noticed an increase in cattle breeding. The Região de Integração do Guamá is located in the Nordeste do Pará, the oldest agrarian frontier in the Eastern Amazon, a space of intense anthropic action and whose colonization was related to family farming based on small properties. In this territory, cattle ranching has manifested itself in the intensification of local deforestation, in the creation of centers for the concentration of activity and in the use of urban infrastructure to transport and improve production. In order to understand this reality, we chose a time frame that would guarantee a view of the process, in this sense, the last three agricultural censuses (1996, 2006, 2016) are taken as a reference. In the research, primary and mainly secondary data were used. Cattle ranching in the Região de Integração do Guamá is concentrated in some municipalities, having shown a deceleration in the growth rate in the last ten years analyzed. The road and service infrastructure supports the consolidation of cattle breeding in the region.