Amazon: exploring the low Rio Branco – Roraima /Amazonas

Abstract

This article takes up an important tradition of Brazilian Geography: field reports. It presents the vision of researchers who, during 10 days of May 2019, traveled the Rio Branco to visit 16 communities in Roraima. Throughout the period, different research techniques were used, such as the collection of testimonies from members of the communities through informal interviews, conversation circles with leaders, the photographic and video recordings, as well as notes from field observations. On-board analyzes were also carried out among the team members that culminated in the production of this article. The objective of the research is to know and identify potentials, needs and experiences of communities that live by the rivers in Roraima. The report found that communities are subject to external logic, such as international tourism, which drastically affects the way of life, as well as depending on urban centers, such as Boa Vista and Manaus, to drain their production, based on extraction. Even so, it was observed that communities are able to express good living, since they do not want to leave the places where they live. Finally, it was also found that the daily lives of women are different from men, whether in the participation of flour production or in fishing, or in leisure.