Subtração do córrego Buritis no espaço urbano de Goiânia

Abstract

The stages of urbanization in Goiânia are marked by modernization, expressing relations between economic and regional development and territorial occupation, modifying its urban landscape. Among the changes, the hydrographic change stands out, as part of the watercourses were buried or suppressed during the construction and expansion of the city. In the official documentation on water resources, it is stated that, initially, the site chosen for the implementation of the new capital had 89 springs and 85 watercourses. Among these courses, there is the Buritis Stream, located between the perennial streams, Capim Puba and Botafogo, whose scarcity of mapping makes it difficult to pinpoint the location of it's original course. Revisiting the primary historical sources, it is possible to observe the modifications of the initial project of Goiânia, which greatly contributed to the suppression of the Buritis Stream, object of analysis of this work. To this end, the phenomena that incited the expansion of the city and its rapid growth through the formation of new neighborhoods and the occupation of its canal are presented. With the demographic growth and occupation of areas adjacent to the original plan, there was a need to integrate the areas of the West, Campinas, Airport and South Sectors, filling or channeling the Buritis Stream that defined the boundaries between them. As a result, this watercourse went unnoticed for most of the period of the capital's constitution until the 1970s, when it disappeared, leaving only two areas: the clubs' court, in the South Sector and the Buritis Forest. The present work characterizes the formation, consolidation and transformation of the urban landscape of Goiânia, observing the processes of hydrological modifications from the mapping of the channel of the Buritis Stream and how the territorial occupation contributed to the change of the water dynamics, through the analysis of the historical series related to the watercourse, elaborated by the Municipal Environment Agency, allowing us to observe the relationships between spatial planning and water resources