THE ENVIRONMENTAL ATLAS OF THE CORUMBATAI WATERSHED – SP, BRAZIL

Abstract

The Corumbatai watershed (1.710 km 2) in the State of São Paulo – Brazil , is a well known region, mainly because one of the branches of the São Paulo State University – UNESP is located there, where most of the departments are related on environmental sciences. However all available data are in the analogical format and stored in different libraries and departments, which means that they are not as useful as they could be, not only for the University, but mainly for the society. The project followed four steps: 1 – Data Identification and Collection, 2 – Data Completion, 3 – Data Preparation and 4 – Data Input/Multimedia Programming. The Environmental Atlas is structured as follows: PRESENTATION; LOCALIZATION; ABIOTIC ENVIRONMENT: Geology, Geomorphology, Pedology, Climatology, Hydrology; BIOTIC ENVIRONMENT: Natural Vegetation, Forestry and crops, Fauna; SOCIO-ECONOMY; PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION; WORKING TEAM. All information was integrated through the FLASH 5 (Macromedia) multimedia software. The final product is available at the IGCE-UNESP’s website www.rc.unesp.br/igce/ceapla/atlas.

Keywords

• Environmental Atlas
• Database
• Watershed.