Formas de uso e ocupação na praia de Ajuruteua-Pará (Brasil)

• Main Authors: Luci Cajueiro Carneiro Pereira, Marcilenia de Jesus Silva Ribeiro, Danielly de Oliveira Guimarães, Pedro Walfir Martins e Souza Filho, Rauquírio Marinho da Costa
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Paraná 2006-01-01
• Series: Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente
• Subjects: use; occupation; Amazonian littoral.
• Online Access: http://ojs.c3sl.ufpr.br/ojs2/index.php/made/article/viewFile/4788/14422

The village of Ajuruteua is located in a beach of the northeast Iittoral of Para State at 36 km from Bragança city and presents a population of 392 people Iiving there (2004), from which the majority of them are fishermen and salesmen. In general, the income sources of these households are insignificant as a consequence of the technological delay and lower professional qualification. The fast and disordered way in which territorial occupation of this coastal zone started in 80's and it is associated to precarious infrastructures where basic sanitary facilities are absent and the public illumination is deficient. A coastal management plan is indispensable to improve the use and occupation of the studied coastal zone and also to improve the Iife quality of the local population.