Uso e ocupação em uma comunidade pesqueira na margem do estuário do Rio Caeté (PA, Brasil)

This work was carried out in Bacuriteua, situated in the northeast “paraense” coastal zone in the margin of the Caeté river estuary. To characterize the type of uses and occupation in the studied area itwas necessary to define: (i) users´s profile, (ii) type of uses of the natural resources, (iii) type of services and infrastructures, and (iv) type of local buildings, to subsidy future and necessary plans ofcoastal management in the bragantinian region. The work was carried out through direct observation, tasks and questionnaires applied to the local inhabitants. The majority of the interviewed work with fishery resources and did not present complete elementary school. The pressures on the natural resources use among some local agents associated to immigration rates, failure of basic hydric canalization,urban daily cleanness and public illumination, absence of potable water net, amongst others were the main factors responsible for some social and environmental problems e.g. over exploration of the biologic resources, urban growth, decrease of public benefit, illness, amongst others. According to the actual socioeconomic status in the study area it is necessary the implementation of measures of coastalmanagement to improve the environmental status and the life quality of the local inhabitant