As transformações no entorno dos riachos Cachoeirinha e Alagadiço em Fortaleza: relatos sobre fluxos hídricos, biodiversidade e práticas sociais

Abstract

The Cachoeirinha and Alagadiço streams, tributaries of the Maranguapinho river, had a special importance in the occupation and construction of the urban space, west of Fortaleza. The degradation and speculation surrounding them, in turn, express the inequalities and contradictions inherent to these processes. It is also observed that the main ecosystem characteristics of these streams have been lost, but their qualities, forms and uses are marked in the memory of former residents and users who experienced the transformations arising from urbanization. In this sense, we are interested in knowing how its elements (physical and ecological), characteristics, dynamics and multiple existing relations were transformed in the several decades of the twentieth century until today. In order to do so, we seek to describe and interpret the processes of transformation in these streams, through a qualitative research in Oral History that aims to gather and articulate, in time and space, reports about this basin for the development of the Environmental History of these streams.