The Coffee Cultivation in the North of Paraná and its Marks in the Landscapes: potentialities for tourism

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Alini Nunes de
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Geografia (Londrina)
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/geografia/article/view/38621
• topic: Landscape; Coffee; North of Paraná.; Paisaje; Café; Norte del Paraná.; Paisagem; Café; Norte do Paraná.

Among the Brazilian regions that have a prominent of coffee production, São Paulo and Paraná States (in particular the North Central area and Pioneer North region) were marked throughout their history by a large production of this crop. This article aims to provide a picture of the coffee cultivation in Brazil and, in the aftermath, it has developed in the Paraná State, besides presenting marks from coffee culture in some rural properties’ landscapes in the North of Paraná State, that integrate the Coffee Route and its potentialities for tourism. As methodological procedures adopted in this paper are bibliographic and documentary research, in addition to field work, a fundamental instrument for this type of research, since it helps in the production of empirical information. The North of Paraná State presents elements linked to its history by the socio-economic importance that it had and the marks left by this important time to the population from North of Paraná can be noted in some landscapes. Thus, in some landscapes from North of Paraná State it’s possible to realize the marks left by coffee culture, and the valorization of coffee culture as tourist attraction is one of the main objectives of Coffee Route.