Avaliação da real potencialidade do Parque das Furnas do Catete (Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro) para a geoconservação

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Ludmila Tobias da
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/13388
• topic: Geodiversity; Geological Heritage; Geoconservation; Geotourism; Furnas do Catete; Geodiversidade; Patrimônio Geológico; Geoconservação; Geoturismo; Furnas do Catete; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::GEOGRAFIA

The Furnas do Catete Park is located in Nova Friburgo, a mountain city in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Its main attraction is the Pedra do Cão Sentado, a rock structure in a format of a dog. The visitors need walk a trail to contemplate this formation. In this way, they go through the Furnas do Catete, a group of angular rock blocks of diferent sizes, consequence of erosion processes and loss of sediments, resulting the caves. Thus, Furnas do Catete and Pedra do Cão Sentado can be classified as geological heritage due its scientific, educational and tourist potential. These natural formations are very rare and show the geological and geomorphological processes responsible for their origin. However, there are not any interpretative resource and actions of geoconservation in the park. Therefore, the general objective of this work is the assessment of the real potentially about the local geodiversity for actions in geoconservation. The methodology used consists of bibliography review, data collect in fieldwork and their subsequent analysis. The results include the presentation, explanation and interrelation of these data. A part of them is associated with questionnaires answered by visitors, containing questions about their general characteristics, interest by the local geodiversity and knowledge of geological heritage. The other part presents a list of geodiversity occurrences with favorable potential for integrate scientific, educational and tourist activities. And a third part points the adequacy of Furnas do Catete and Pedra do Cão Sentado to be geosites registered in Comissão Brasileira de Sítios Geológicos e Paleobiológicos (SIGEP). Finally, it was verificated the capacity of the abiotic elements of the study area to sensitize the attention of visitors. Thereby, these features are able to disseminate the geoscientific knowledge to the public. But is necessary a union between scientific research institutions and the park administration