Transport system and pioneering production dynamics in the eastern portion of the northern brazilian Amazon

Abstract

In the northern Brazilian Amazon the large distances to be covered and natural barrier by the Amazon River, imposed great difficulty to the performance of the Brazilian National State until the end of the first half of the twentieth century. In the eastern portion, despite the insipience of state, dynamics of regional development based on forest extraction helped maintain relative sovereignty over the territory which was also contested by the French. After the discovery of manganese deposits in Serra do Navio in the early 1940s, Brazil consolidated its sovereignty through the creation of the Federal Territory of Amapá and the provision of an administrative structure that took momentum in infrastructure for mineral exploration implemented by initiative private national capital associate to international. Noting that historical period, an attempt was made based on the evaluation of the structures established in the space make a study that could indicate how the road system evolved in this region of the country and what their relationship to dynamic pioneer of regional development.
It was found that the transport system in Amapá had a directly proportional relation to the extractive dynamics and their evolution largely due to the expansion or gradual decrease of the production process in these activities.

https://doi.org/10.14195/0871-1623_35_1