LOSS OF FOREST COVER AND PUBLIC POLICIES IN AGRARIAN REFORM SETTLEMENTS IN THE AMAZON: ANALYSIS OF P.A TUERE, NOVO REPARTIMENTO, STATE OF PARA/PERDA DE COBERTURA FLORESTAL E POLITICAS PUBLICAS EM ASSENTAMENTOS DE REFORMA AGRARIA NA AMAZONIA: ANALISE DO P.A TUERE, NOVO REPARTIMENTO, ESTADO DO PARA/PERDIDA DE COBERTURA FORESTAL Y POLITICAS PUBLICAS EN ASENTAMIENTOS DE REFORMA AGRARIA

From the point of view of history, the Para Amazon, the territorial correspondent of the State of Para, has been undergoing a series of major transformations, especially in its frontiers. In the past, this region was a priority target for colonization programs and for the establishment of rural settlements, whose main objective was to populate remote areas of the country as a kind of geopolitical strategy. At present, however, the intensive land use dynamics on the Frontier of Para indicates a significant increase in deforestation in areas of rural settlements. In these circumstances, inserted in the region of the Arc of Deforestation, there is the municipality of Novo Repartimento, state of Para, which has 32 rural settlement projects in a total area of 5,596.5 [km.sup.2]. Among them, there is the Tuere Federal Settlement Project, created on August 4, 1987, the first project installed in Novo Repartimento. In this context, the objective of this work is to analyze, characterize and map the contribution of Tuere Settlement Project to deforestation in Novo Repartimento, Para, during the period from 1985 to 2020. The land cover classification derived from MAPBIOMAS was used to identify the deforested areas in Tuere. The results are important to show the influence that the Agrarian Reform settlement projects have on the total deforestation of the municipality, evidenced from an increase of 1,448.73 [km.sup.2] in deforested areas in 35 years in the Tuere Settlement Project. Keywords: Colonization; Territorial Occupation; Geoprocessing; Frontier; Novo Repartimento. Do ponto de vista da historia, a Amazonia paraense, o correspondente territorial do Estado do Para, vem passando por uma serie de grandes transformacoes, sobretudo nas suas fronteiras. No passado, essa regiao foi alvo prioritario de programas de colonizacao e estabelecimento de assentamentos rurais, que tinham como principal objetivo povoar areas remotas do pais como uma especie de estrategia geopolitica. Na atual conjuntura, porem, a dinamica de uso intensivo do solo na fronteira paraense indica um aumento significativo do desmatamento em areas de assentamentos rurais. Nestas circunstancias, inserido na regiao do "Arco do Desmatamento", destaca-se o municipio de Novo Repartimento, estado do Para, que possui 32 projetos de assentamentos rurais. Dentre eles, tem-se o Projeto de Assentamento Federal Tuere, criado em 04 de agosto de 1987, que foi o primeiro projeto instalado no municipio de Novo Repartim