Environmental zoning of the Mimoso river watershed, Bonito/MS: the contributions of landscape cartography and geosystemic optics

• Autor(a) principal: Medeiros, Rafael Brugnolli
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Entre-Lugar (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.ufgd.edu.br/entre-lugar/article/view/15839
• topic: Geosystemic Theory. Watershed. Bonito/MS. Physical-Territorial Planning. Karst System.; Teoría geosistémica. Cuenca hidrográfica. Bonito/MS. Ordenamiento físico y territorial. Sistema Carstic.; Teoria Geossistêmica. Bacia Hidrográfica. Bonito/MS. Ordenamento Físico-Territorial. Sistema Cárstico.

The landscape studies under a systemic, integrated and geo-ecological perspective are fundamental to achieve the environmental zoning because they allow to compartmentalize the area in geosystemic units and provide proposals in view of its fragilities, potentialities and functionalities. Therefore, the research adopted the Mimoso River watershed, located in the municipality of Bonito/MS, as a study area to elaborate an environmental zoning in order to provide support for a physical-territorial planning. To this end, techniques and tools linked to the Geographic Information Systems ArcGis 10® and Spring 5.2.6 were used, as well as field trips to analyze the surface water and verify the data with the terrestrial reality. It is noted that this basin is linked to the karstic environment, with translucent waters and marked farming. Even though it presents preserved vegetation areas, it is a basin that has been suffering under constant pressure on the water resources, and thus, the environmental zoning made it possible to identify extensive areas in need of recovery due to legal and environmental incongruities. In the conclusion, proposals were elaborated for a land use planning, reducing the environmental problems of the basin.