Costa, Ademir Araújo daAmorim, João Paulo de Almeida2023-11-142023-11-142023-08-29AMORIM, João Paulo de Almeida. Amazônia setentrional amapaense: interações espaciais na sub-região das ilhas da foz do Amazonas. Orientador: Dr. Ademir Araújo da Costa. 2023. 241f. Tese (Doutorado em Geografia) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2023.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/55344The present work consists of analyzing the Sub-region of Ilhas da Foz do Amazonas (SIFA), located in the Northern Amazon of Amapaense (ASA), through its spatial interactions between its municipalities. In this context, the riverside face of the MacapáSantana Urban Agglomeration (AUMS), through its ports, plays an important role with SIFA and ASA, as they have a strong historically built connection, since the Portuguese colonial period with the aforementioned cut. The first section of this work discusses the choice of the object of study, its justification and the methodology used. The relevance of this research consists of adding to the studies already carried out on the composition of the ASA sub-regions and their internal dynamics, where it was observed that the cities of Macapá and Santana play an extremely important role in the ASA urban and regional network. In addition to the identification with the study area, the originality of the work is due to the fact that there are few studies developed analyzing the ASA. From this perspective, the aim here is to increase the contribution to science, especially to Amapá Geography in its regional context, as relations between the states of Amapá and Pará are increasingly intertwined due to their recent dynamics, mainly at the mouth of the Amazon River. The methodology used in this research was, initially, the documentary bibliographical research related to the concepts of urban agglomeration, spatial interactions, urban diversity, hybridity, urbanization in the Amazon and Amazonian cities. The reading of scientific articles, available databases, books, dissertations and theses helped in the discussion of the theoretical and methodological framework of the research, mainly in the identification of urban-riverside spaces and their conceptual condition. In line with the bibliographical research, field interviews were carried out in Macapá, Santana, Afuá, Chaves and Gurupá, mainly in ports and during trips between these municipalities, with the aim of analyzing spatial interactions and hybridity within SIFA. In the second section, the Sub-region of the islands at the mouth of the Amazon is characterized. In the third section, the formation of urban-river spaces at the mouth of the Amazon River was analyzed, in line with the formation of cities, their typologies and definitions. In the fourth section of this work, the importance of the AUMS for the SIFA and the ASA was analyzed, through the analysis of their spatial interactions. As a result of this doctoral thesis, it was identified that SIFA has a network of spatial interactions, in which the relations between the AUMS and the insular face of SIFA, where the territorial responsibility of AUMS within SIFA stands out, , mainly due to the dynamics of exchange of goods and people, access to the health and education network by riverside residents who gradually incorporate urban dynamics into their daily lives, forming new ways of using space, which are called urban-riverside spaces within SIFA, mainly at AUMS.Acesso AbertoInterações espaciaisSub-região das ilhas da foz do AmazonasAmazônia Setentrional AmapaenseAglomeração urbana Macapá-SantanadoctoralThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::GEOGRAFIA