Configurations of a territorial scenario: the rio Doce, São Tarcísio Quarter and Riparians (Governador Valadares-MG) axis

The quarter of São Tarcísio near river Doce – Governador Valadares, Brazil - is a scenario of a feasible territory where a specific portion of land is loosely associated with a physical soil and some particular humans traits printed culturally. Actually this essay deals with three dimensions at the same time: the River, the quarter and its inhabitants. Having in mind an historical process, a realm of feelings and some categories like imaginary, representations, social codes and identity as the main tools one could get a way in order to reach the process of symbolic production and reproduction of this process of territorialization. The territory is then understood as the product of a scene of feasible territory through the material and symbolic appropriation of a space. This appropriation is deeply linked to the imaginary, to experience, to the mythical, to the day-by-day life and cultural codes.