FLOATING TERRITORIAL ARRANGEMENTS OF THE RIVER LAKE OF TEFÉ AND COARI IN THE AMAZONAS

Abstract The largest urban centers of the Middle Solimões River region in Amazonas State, the cities of Tefé and Coari, have hundreds of traditional Amazonian fluvial structures exercising different spatial functions, they are the floating ones. The objective of this article is to understand the role of the floatings in these cities for regional development and territorial integration. At first, a classification is proposed based on the identification of the residential, commercial, institutional and service functions performed by the floatings in both lakes. Then, a characterization and classification of the floating territorial arrangements of these cities is elaborated. This reading provides subsidies for the understanding of social and economic relations in peripheral fluvial spaces in the Amazon useful or not to integrate the territory and develop this complex region of brazilian sociospatial formation.

摘要：巴西亚马逊州（Amazonas State）索利蒙伊斯河（Solimões River）中游区域的两大城镇中心——特费（Tefé）与科阿里（Coari），拥有数百座承载多元空间功能的传统亚马逊河滨浮动结构，此类结构均为浮动式设施。本文旨在探究此类浮动设施在两市的区域发展与地域整合进程中所发挥的作用。首先，研究基于对两湖区域内浮动设施所承担的居住、商业、公共机构及服务功能的识别，提出相应分类体系；随后，针对两市的浮动型空间布局展开详细刻画与分类。本研究可为理解亚马逊流域外围河滨空间的社会经济关系提供佐证依据，而此类社会经济关系无论是否有助于地域整合与这片巴西社会空间构型复杂的区域发展，均具备参考价值。