Mato Grosso

It is alluded, for example, to the fact of the Region Center-West, considered being a bred region artificially to serve to an interest of State; by means of the state strategical planning, for posterior occupation of its territory. As well as, the division in 1977, of the territory of Mato Grosso, can be understood as a moment of exclusion of the local population of the central region of Brazil, in the processes of decision taking. At this moment, the chances of popular participation met restricted still more that currently. But, nowadays, start of century XXI, the levels of politicalization and participativa conscience of the populations that inhabit the goiano Open pasture, clearly is better developed, in reason of bigger educational level. Considering the social picture, ambient politician and verified currently, let us retake the concept initial of landscape, placed as one of the points of boarding of the text this understood here, not only as resulted of the geophysical transformations and also, of the evolution of the natural picture of bioma; these slight knowledge, generally, very on to sensu common, related to the landscape.

It is intended to approach landscape here, as being resulted of the social production of one determined human group, cohabiting in a locality. In accordance with MAYAN, 2001, P. 87, this agreement regarding landscape, it finds bedding in Carl Sauer, who considers Geography a study of the differentiation of areas or corologia. For this author, area, region landscape are words equivalents. Opting to this last one for understanding that this term is not ambiguous as area, nor it possesss forts connotations with the ambient determinismo as region, much associated to the idea of natural region. Still salient MAYAN, P. 88, that he has, therefore, in Sauer, the concern with the knowledge on the diversity of the action human being. Where Sauer, bases its consideraes on landscape, among others, in the notion of culture of Kroeber, that considers it a phenomenon that if it originates, it spreads out yourself and it evolves in the time and the space, being understandable in the time, however traced in the space where if it locates.