“…Despite the polycentricity usually being applied in researches on urban network system in large metropolitan areas (OORT et al, 2009;GOEI et al, 2010;HANSSENS et al, 2012), in the last years this method was used in different contexts such as mountain regions (LIU et al, 2019), regions with diversity of urban structure (MARLÝ, 2018), rural depopulation regions (GASCÓN; MASOT, 2020) and could be validated in studies on agribusiness regions (OLIVEIRA, RODRIGUES, 2020a, 2020bSURYA et al, 2021). In Brazil, the method is concentrated in a few studies which aimed to investigate the morphological aspects (population and facilities) in countryside regions dominated by medium cities (FERREIRA, 2018;SPINELLI, MESQUITA, 2020) or analyzing the transportation network in metropolitan regions (KNEIB, 2016).…”