A PROPOSAL FOR RENATURALIZATION OF URBANIZED FLOODLORDS IN PARINTINS (AM)

Abstract

The city of Parintins-AM had its urban expansion based on the occupation of other neighboring islands through landfills built by the city government on the border of neighborhoods with urban wetlands. The water quality of these urban floodplain areas was compromised, triggering environmental, social and economic impacts that can be avoided if the necessary measures are taken to achieve sustainable development goals 6 and 11, which aim to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all, as well as to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. The area studied is the headquarters of the municipality of Parintins – AM, located in the middle course of the Amazon basin, on the right bank of the Amazon River, which is situated on the border between the states of Amazonas and Pará. The general objective of the research intends to develop a theoretical-methodological proposal for the renaturalization of the urban floodplain in the filled-in stretches that interconnected the islands for the expansion of the city of Parintins-AM, developed from exploratory, explanatory and empirical research. The use of remote sensing helped to develop the history of the occupation of the floodplain areas and the renaturalization projects of degraded urban floodplains around the world and in Brazil served as a basis for the elaboration of the proposal. As a result, an organizational chart was generated containing the stages of the renaturalization process of the urbanized floodplain of Lago da Francesa and Lago do Macurany with alternative intervention solutions in the analyzed stretches.