Portuguese cartography as a foundational element of Brasilia city

resignifying the discourse of the pre-existing space of the capital through the research memory

Abstract

This work starts from the proposition of the memorial resignification referring to the historical context that formed the idea and production of the capital city of Brazil, Brasilia. The objective was to indicate the temporal richness that induced the idea of transferring the Brazilian capital, leaving the mercantilist coast towards the interior of the territory, recognizing the origin and evolution of cartographic studies as one of the basic and fundamental elements for spatial and geographic knowledge. of the Brazilian Center-West, having as main justifications the defense and the territorial occupation. It was also the objective of the study to interpret, in the analysis of the facts, the strategic participation of the Marquês de Pombal, in the 18th century, who had an intimate connection with the cartographers Ângelo dos Santos Cardoso and Tosi Colombina, who were directly responsible for researching and producing the pioneering maps of the captaincy of Goiás, site that hosted the construction of Brasília more than 200 years after the strategic inspiration of the Portuguese court in recognizing and indicating the transfer of the capital of Brazil to the interior of the territory. Thus, the article in its context, proposes to contribute to the debate regarding the geohistory of the city of Brasilia, highlighting the elasticity of the temporal and spatial field that made possible the materialization of the modernist city, listed as a Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Organization for the Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) in 1990.