Environmental characterization of the settlement project directed Humaitá, Acre

Abstract

With the bankruptcy of the rubber plantations, the process of occupation of the Acre lands took place through tensions between investors in the south-central region and the rubber tappers. With this tension emerging more and more, the Federal Government together with the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA) began to implement the directed settlement projects (PAD). The present study aimed to make an environmental characterization using the databases of the Ecological and Economic Zoning of Acre (ZEE), in 2016, and the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), in 2019, and classification of land use using the maximum likelihood method in the years 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019, of the Humaitá Managed Settlement Project (PAD) located in the municipality of Porto Acre in the state of Acre. Among the results of the environmental characterization, maps of vegetation, pedology, hydrography and access roads of the PAD area were obtained, showing that in almost 70% the area is deforested. The mapping of land use from 2013 to 2019 showed that deforestation occurred in forest fragments that are close to the Rio Acre.