A exclusão social no município de Aquiraz/CE

Abstract

This study examines the social exclusion of municipality of Aquiraz. The region is considered the second largest hotel park of the state, but has considerable poverty indicators in its periphery. Regarding their economic activities, the municipality counts, besides tourism, with the agricultural production, cattle breeding, poultry and extractive which highlights the breeding cattle, pigs and horses whose production has remained steady compared to other municipalities in the state. The industrial sector currently counts with 23 industries and the trade acts with bigger expressivity between the municipality and the city of Fortaleza. The objective of this work is to verify the situation of socioeconomic indicators pointing their potential and main difficulties faced. Was performed a field survey in the peripheral district of Patacas where was possible to determine the current rates of privation of education, income, sanitation, running water and garbage disposal and thus estimate their IES comparing it with the previously estimated for the entire municipality of Aquiraz by Lemos (2012). Besides the socioeconomic indicators, the survey also examined how the population feels their life quality, efficiency in the local medical services and issues related to the tourism.