A ESTRUTURA FUNDIÁRIA DO PANTANAL BRASILEIRO

Abstract

The Pantanal is an extensive area located in the Center-West of Brazil, recognized for being an active sedimentation basin, of depression relief with seasonally flooded plains. The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) considers Pantanal as one of the six Brazilian biomes, of national and international relevance. Its main economic activity is agriculture and cattle raising, favored by the characteristics of the relief. The demand for pastures makes land property fundamental in the Pantanal. Thereby, the representation of the land structure is a technique that allows the understanding of the agrarian question that surrounds the Pantanal. The objective of this work was to represent the land structure of the Pantanal, based on a spatial database of regularized properties and made available by the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA), motivated by the unexplored potential of geoinformation applied in Agrarian Geography. The results point to a control of the land by the private properties that allows, consequently, the control of nature in the Pantanal, far beyond the public and protected areas. From the cartographic representation, it was also verified that the public properties are concentrated, in general, in the extremities of the Pantanal, as well as the small properties that, in the majority of the cases, are concentrated in the limits to the North of the Pantanal. In contrast, large estates and large land holdings control the central part of the biome.