ZONEAMENTO AMBIENTAL DAS ÁREAS DE PRESERVAÇÃO PERMANENTE DO MUNICÍPIO DE MARTINS, RN

Abstract

The present work had as objective accomplishes study of environmental zonamento of the Areas of Permanent Preservation (APP's) of Martins' city, located in Oeste Potiguar's mesoregion and microrregion of Umarizal, in the State of Rio Grande do Norte, located in the mountainous area of the state and with a tourist potential fort, for your pleasant climate, trails and observatory for a beautiful view of the mountain, where she looked for to identify the principal problems related with the use and the improper appropriation of the natural resources, through the characterization in cartographic documents, guided by the effective environmental legislation, that serve as base for the electric outlet of decisions with relationship to the occupation of the surface of the municipal district. The maps, in the scale of 1:100.000, with the delimitacion of APPs were generated with I aid of SIG, satellite images in colored composition and vectorial files in consequence qualitative and quantitative visual illustrative enrichment, originating a database that will subsidize possible interventions in the area. The conclusions were significant and they got attention for the following situations: APP's occupy 32,62% of the area of the municipal district, limiting the use and occupation of the soil, already APP of Top of Hill that embraces an area 25,52% of the municipal surface.