Descentralização do comércio na cidade de Juruti no Estado do Pará

Abstract

The municipality of Juruti located in the west of the State of Pará on the border with the State of Amazonas, with a territorial extension of 8,306 km², and a population estimated at 52,755 inhabitants (IBGE, 2014), has undergone profound changes in its scenery in recent years economic, social and spatial development, arising from the arrival of a large mining enterprise of the multinational company Aluminum Company Of America (ALCOA). These transformations implied the emergence of the spatial process of decentralization, previously absent in Juruti, but specifically the case of trade decentralization, in the form of commercial axes. The present work seeks to analyze the spatial process of trade decentralization, based on the transformations that took place in Juruti in recent years. Its main objective is to analyze the causes of this decentralization, as well as to identify the factors that contributed to its emergence, and to recognize the determining factors for the location of the trade axes. In view of this, the research was based on the qualitative analysis, but did not abdicate the quantitative one. Commercial decentralization in Juruti was presented in a double sense, at the same time as the commercial growth for a new location, there were also the appearance of commercial activities and products hitherto absent in Juruti.