Territory management centers in the southeast of the Eastern Amazon

Abstract

The southeast of the Eastern Amazon is one of the Amazon regions with the greatest economic and populational density that integrates what Becker (2009) pointed out as an arch of consolidated population and the core of the regional economy. In light of that, this paper seeks to identify and analyze the main centers that command that segment of the urban network, considering the public and economic administration of the territory. This research is based on a bibliographic revision and analysis of micro-data of the publication of Regiões de Influência das Cidades – REGIC (IBGE, 2020). It has been observed that the region has three levels of territorial administration: at the top are the cities of Palmas, Marabá, and Imperatriz, which establish administrative interactions that transcend the region. In the middle, there is a list of cities focused on national investments and the installation of a variety of public services but with a reduced capacity of making city-ness interactions, having their territories as initial points. Finally, in the third level, there is a set of cities whose prevailing interactions comprise town-ness.