GEOECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF SERRA DO APON QUILOMBOL COMMUNITY, CASTRO, PR

Abstract

It were made a brief geoecological analysis of the Quilombola Community Serra do Apon, from the GTP approach - Geossystem, Territory and Landscape, proposed by Bertrand, which allows the understanding of the functioning of the landscape units, in their totality social/cultural/naturalist. The community located in the rural area of the municipality of Castro, in the region of Campos Gerais do Paraná, had its occupation by aphrodescendent population initiated in late 1860 related to the slavery scape from Fazenda Capão Alto. The distance, the difficulty of access, social invisibility and socioenvironmental conflicts have permeated the permanence of the niggers in the Serra do Apon within an inaltered landscape. The recent legal context allowed its recognition, although they are still searching for their agrarian regularization, whereas the right to the territory as a key element to ensure adequate living conditions. The analysis allows to caracterize the landscape as a product of the interaction among the various elements, in a bertrandtian tripolar perspective.