During the construction and completion of the UHE Belo Monte from 2010 to 2020, the city
of Altamira experienced an exponential increase in rates related to violence and crime,
reaching alarming levels as a result of the problems arising from the project in the region.
This increase in violence and crime spread with force in all directions in the urban space of
Altamira, affecting especially the population directly impacted by the project and the local
youth. Of all the crimes that had their growth leveraged, homicide is the one that draws most
attention in this period, because it is the most dramatic face of urban violence, it can be seen
then that this type of crime gains strength to be reproduced with more intensity from the
moment that the works of the UHE Belo Monte begin to be built. Thus, of the 11
municipalities affected by the construction of the plant, the city of Altamira, being the center
of this region and concentrating the largest number of services, was the city most impacted by
Belo Monte. In this way, this work is born with the intention of launching itself to the
challenge of discussing and analyzing more deeply the phenomena of violence and
criminality, using Belo Monte as a catalyst event of old and new problems in urban space,
thus contributing to the production of knowledge, to the studies of violence and criminality in
this municipality, in the light of Geography, enabling an understanding of the phenomenon, of
its dimension and intensity. Based on these premises, the general objective of this dissertation
is to analyze and understand the spatial dynamics of violence and criminality in Altamira,
what are its causes and implications in urban space, having as a catalyst of these problems the
construction of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Plant and its relationship with the indicators of
violence.
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