Estudo morfopedológico do município de Marechal Cândido Rondon, região Oeste do Estado do Paraná

Abstract

The soils reflects in the landscape its own evolution, it can be in its genesis or in the different process that transform its morphology. The morphopedologyc study, besides the importance to comprehend the distribution of the soils in the landscape and to identify the different uses and occupation, can also be revealed in a good base of dados for the plan programs of soils, it means to say, that contributes for the better knowledge of this natural resource, considered the economic basis of the agriculturist and cattleman of the town Marechal Cândido Rondon. The methodology adopted in this search was the integrate study of the dados, surveyed from letters, satellite images, field research and the elaboration of thematic maps (soil and declivity), that were fundamental for the confection of the final product, that in this case, is the morphopedologyc map of the town area. From these maps and the study of the units of the landscape it was understand the variations morphopedologyc characteristics of landscape units and their different uses, and identify areas with problems related to erosion and vegetation growth in sectors with higher slope as the unit of the Platô, sub-unit of Bela Vista and Sao Roque. It is valid to consider that this document can be used in a future plan, as much the agricultural areas as the urban and periurbanas of the town of Marechal Cândido Rondon, West Region of the State of Paraná.