Santarém, entre la Amazonia de los ríos y la Amazonia de las carreteras

• Published in: Confins
• Main Author: Valbuena, Rubén
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Hervé Théry 2009
• Subjects: Amazonie des fleuves; Amazonie des routes; Bas Amazone; Cuiabá-Santarém; Amazonia de las carreteras; Amazonia de los rios; Baixo Amazonas; Big River; La Grande Rivière
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/confins/3903

The great northern area of Brazil, Amazonia, which during several centuries represented only an enormous vacuum and a source of potential richness, has been during the last half-century the object of an accelerated process of occupation and of intensive exploitation. A strong dynamics of appropriati...