COFFEE SPATIALIZATION IN THE BRAZILIAN TERRITORY: A GEO-HISTORICAL ANALYSIS UNTIL ITS ARRIVAL IN RONDÔNIA

Abstract

The spatialization of coffee in the world comes from a political and economic process in the 15th to the mid-20th centuries, from the 1750s onwards it becomes a socio-territorial and economic movement, with an urgency for territorial planning. With emphasis on the spatial trajectory of the coffee rubiacea, the objective of this article is to present the analysis of the spatialization of coffee and territorial planning in the twentieth century. Use of literary study of the economic dynamics of coffee in the Brazilian territory and by geographers with wisdom to foster discussions about the focus of the territory used and territorial planning. The emphasis is on Brazilian researchers for the analysis of the territory as a system that involves nature and the human being are thought of from the relations of political, economic and social power. It is concluded that coffee was responsible for the economic dynamics and the epicenter of socio-territorial movements in a process of production and commercialization of coffee, even if unintentional, became a strategy of socio-territorial inclusion since its entry into the agricultural productive spatial circuit in Brazil to its arrival in the territory of Rondônia.