The landscape units as a category of geographical analysis: the example of the municipality of São Vicente-SP

The municipality of São Vicente, object of study of this research, was included in Baixada Santista in the Geomorphologic Domain of the Coastal Province in the state of São Paulo, is characterized by the occurrence of several landscapes under the domain of zones of Range and Coastal Plains. It presents an intense urban use which is established under risk areas vulnerable to events related to mass movements and floods, facts which are aggravated due to the rising occupation process. Having in sight what was exposed, the main objective of this research was identifying and characterizing the physical and environmental agents and processes, which act on the coastal area linked to the municipality of São Vicente, as a subsidy to the actualization of the proposal of defining units of the landscape which represent the many different levels of environmental fragilities accentuated by the model of use in which the organization of the space in the area of the municipality is consolidated. Intending to achieve such objective, it was made the physiographic characterizing, the field data raising which subsided the analysis of the geomorphic, climatic, hydrodynamic parameters.O município de São Vicente objeto de estudo desta pesquisa, incluiu-se na Baixada Santista no domínio Geomorfológico da Província Costeira no Estado de São Paulo, caracteriza-se pela ocorrência de paisagens diversas sob domínio das zonas de Serranias e Planície Costeira. Apresenta um intenso uso urbano que se estabelece sob áreas de risco vulneráveis a eventos relacionados a movimentos de massa e inundações, fatos que se agravam em razão do crescente processo de ocupação. Tendo em vista o exposto, o objetivo principal desta pesquisa foi a identificação e caracterização dos agentes e processos físico-ambientais, atuantes na área costeira no Município de São Vicente, como subsídio para a efetivação da proposta de definição de unidades da paisagem que representem os diversos níveis de fragilidades ambientais acentuadas pelo modelo de uso em que se consolida a organização do espaço na área do município. Com o propósito de alcançar tal objetivo, foi realizada a caracterização fisiográfica e o levantamento de dados de campo que subsidiou a análise dos parâmetros geomórficos, climáticos e hidrodinâmicos202177198The municipality of São Vicente, object of study of this research, was included in Baixada Santista in the Geomorphologic Domain of the Coastal Province in the state of São Paulo, is characterized by the occurrence of several landscapes under the domain of zones of Range and Coastal Plains. It presents an intense urban use which is established under risk areas vulnerable to events related to mass movements and floods, facts which are aggravated due to the rising occupation process. Having in sight what was exposed, the main objective of this research was identifying and characterizing the physical and environmental agents and processes, which act on the coastal area linked to the municipality of São Vicente, as a subsidy to the actualization of the proposal of defining units of the landscape which represent the many different levels of environmental fragilities accentuated by the model of use in which the organization of the space in the area of the municipality is consolidated. Intending to achieve such objective, it was made the physiographic characterizing, the field data raising which subsided the analysis of the geomorphic, climatic, hydrodynamic parameter