EROSIVE PROCESSES IN URUCUTIUA RIVER BASIN: PAÇO DO LUMIAR TOWN – MA

• Main Authors: Wanderson Barbosa Cirillo, Francicléia Vieira Ribeiro, Márcia Fernanda P. Gonçalves, Antonio Cordeiro Feitosa
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editora da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia 2005-05-01
• Series: Revista Sociedade & Natureza
• Online Access: http://www.sociedadenatureza.ig.ufu.br/include/getdoc.php?id=1293&article=649&mode=pdf

The modeling of the terrestrial prominence is the result of the endogenous and exogenous agents, denominated as erosion agents, that constitute a set of forces that contribute to the soil erosion development and the prominence modeling that can be a risk to man according to the modifications of the humanized environment.In Brazil, the problem of erosion is old. The states of Parana, Sao Paolo and Rio Grande do Sul are the states that have the best exponents of control for these processes. In the rest of the country, the lack of interest of the government institutions results in absence of reference materials to detail the studies so that the planner have difficulties to understand the situation to prevent it.This study justifies itself because the area in question has been invaded without a compatible plan where we observe environmental problems in different frequencies and magnitudes whose the final product is the elaboration of the map of vulnerability to the erosive processes in Urucutiua river hydrography basin that will subsidize the redefinition of the process of local occupation that is inserted in area of high susceptibility to erosion according to Cirillo (2003, p. 50).