A construção da represa Guarapiranga: imagem, técnica e paisagem

Abstract

The work aims at historically analyzing the construction of the Guarapiranga dam (1906-1909) in Santo Amaro, south of the city of São Paulo, through a series of photographic images of the Energy and Sanitation Foundation and other related sources. Besides, it intends to discuss the landscape changes promoted by and the engineering techniques employed in the process. It was an enterprise of the Canadian The São Paulo Tramway, Light and Power Company Ltd., company of force and light to be installed in Brazil, in 1899. For this, we also present the history of the State occupation and the demands of water and energy in the region, especially in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.