CITIES IN THE AMAZON, TERRITORIAL SYSTEMS AND THE URBAN NETWORK

ABSTRACT Starting from theoretical premises on urban networks in the Amazon that highlight the incomplete character of the cities' economies and their unconsolidated hinterlands, this proposal discusses the Urban Riparian Territory System (STUR), which is dynamized through navigation and belongs to the grassroots economy. Data from Parintins (AM), evidences the distribution of industrialized goods to surrounding areas and supply of the urban market with regional resources. The STUR also affects the structuring of intraurban space forming low-income neighborhoods, shaping riverfronts that function as multireticular nodes. There is a complex interaction with the dominant territorial system linked to commercial capital, showing the dual and complementary character of this grassroots economy.