From the point of view of history, the Pará Amazon, the territorial correspondent
of the State of Pará, has been undergoing a series of major transformations, especially in its
frontiers. In the past, this region was a priority target for colonization programs and for the
establishment of rural settlements, whose main objective was to populate remote areas of the
country as a kind of geopolitical strategy. At present, however, the intensive land use dynamics
on the Frontier of Pará indicates a significant increase in deforestation in areas of rural
settlements. In these circumstances, inserted in the region of the Arc of Deforestation, there is
the municipality of Novo Repartimento, state of Pará, which has 32 rural settlement projects in a
total area of 5,596.5 km2. Among them, there is the Tuerê Federal Settlement Project, created on
August 4, 1987, the first project installed in Novo Repartimento. In this context, the objective of
this work is to analyze, characterize and map the contribution of Tuerê Settlement Project to
deforestation in Novo Repartimento, Pará, during the period from 1985 to 2020. The land cover
classification derived from MAPBIOMAS was used to identify the deforested areas in Tuerê.
The results are important to show the influence that the Agrarian Reform settlement projects
have on the total deforestation of the municipality, evidenced from an increase of 1,448.73 km2
in deforested areas in 35 years in the Tuerê Settlement Project.
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