OS PERÍODOS DO TERRITÓRIO E A FORMAÇÃO DA REDE URBANA NA MESORREGIÃO ORIENTAL DO TOCANTINS E NA MESORREGIÃO EXTREMO OESTE BAIANO

Abstract

This work uses a periodization with a historical-geographical approach to characterize the urban network of the rivers from the 16th century until the first half of the 19th century, following from there until the first half of the 20th century to comprehend the urban network of the railways and highways, and from the second half of the 20th century until today, to identify the urban network of the agricultural frontier in the Eastern Mesoregion of Tocantins and in the Far West Mesoregion of Bahia, in the interior of the Brazilian MATOPIBA. In this region, the productive restructuring of agriculture and cattle-raising have required technical additions and other changes in the traditional productive systems that have caused repercussions inside the cities and in people's lives, thus giving rise to a new urban system. The research was guided by the tracking of bibliography about the formation of the network of cities in the region, especially the REGIC results updated by IBGE in 2018, and other secondary data from different sources, to elaborate cartographic documents and other resources that represent the different periods of configuration of the urban network in the region. It is expected to understand past processes that conditioned the appearance of the cities that compose it and the recent political, economic, environmental and cultural factors, among others, that in the long time guarantee the permanence and the transformations that occurred in this segment of urban network.