INTERPRETATION OF THE SEMIARID LANDSCAPE OF THE STATE OF PIAUÍ: FIELD PRACTICE IN THE CITIES OF PRATA DO PIAUÍ AND CIDADE DE PEDRAS

Abstract

This article aims to characterize the landscapes of stretches visited in field activities in Prata do Piaui and Cidade de Pedras, trying to identify their suitability, or not, to the classification of semiarid spaces, based on the criteria of climatic types and vegetation cover used by the literature to define the Brazilian semarid region. The methodological procedures were based on the dialectical approach that starded with the discussion in the classroom, at the moment of articulation of the observation scripts in the towns mentioned. During the fieldwork, the descriptive-exploratory character was used by means of maps, filling in forms, using the Global Positioning System (GPS) and camera. In the laboratory, Qgis software was used to analyse collected data and information. In order to achieve the proposed objective, geoenvironmental characterization and comparative observation were carried out, as a subsidy to the analysis of local landscapes in relation to the conceptualization of a semiarid environment.