Caracterização preliminar do uso do solo na área urbana de Viçosa (MG), Brasil

Abstract

Este trabalho apresenta os resultados preliminares de um levantamento da situação atual da ocupação da área urbana do Município de Viçosa (MG), de maneira a servir como ferramenta de apoio ao planejamento do uso do espaço urbano e à caracterização do seu risco geológico. Os dados obtidos foram digitalizados, de maneira a permitir a sua atualização permanente.

Study of the situation of mass movements in the urban area of Viçosa (MG)

“…In the autumn, winter and spring happens the predominance of the Atlantic tropical mass and in the winter, mainly, are common the inversions of the Atlantic polar mass, that provokes front rains. The largest incidence of rains happens in the period of October to March, being the pick in December (VIEIRA, 2000).…”

“…The urban concentration of Viçosa, as well as of most of the cities at the Area of the Forest in Minas Gerais, was formed initially along the terraces, for a series of factors, as the access easiness, the proximity of the courses of water, the favorable topography, in the form of U open of the valleys of larger order and because it treat of places that didn't flood (QUINTEIRO, 1997. by VIEIRA, 2000.…”

“…by VIEIRA, 2000. With the population growth, the occupation passed to give in the adjacent areas to the terraces, reaching those leans and the hill tops (VIEIRA, 2000).…”

“…The relief, denominated of seas of hills, where convex-convex and convex-concave slopes aligned prevail in form of ridges, intensely dissected by the fluvial erosion, intermixed by wide valleys of annoying bottom, formed by terraces and larger beds, where there is a little Sociedade & Natureza, Uberlândia, Special Issue, 224-234, May, 2005 228 expressive courses of water, the tops come flat, constituting the divisors of water for the small existent drainage basins (VIEIRA, 2000).…”

“…According to Vieira (2000), in the recent conditions of dissecting, the convex-convex landform, that in the past it had the maximum expression, it has been destroyed by the ravines and gullying, developing for a sloping plan, which's the steepness, can vary of fort the soft.…”