O córrego dos Buritis em Goiânia: paisagens e trajetos invisíveis

Abstract

Due to a historical and global process of urbanization, natural spaces began to exist in the landscapes of large contemporary cities in a discontinuous way, whose remaining fragments in the urban fabric find themselves depending on political and economic interests to the detriment of their own natural way or even the current environmental legislation. The reality of water courses in Brazilian urbanized regions is, in this case, the maximum expression of the fragmentation of the natural landscape in cities then, in the process of occupying the territory, water is the first natural element to be desired, controlled, manipulated, delimited and disputed. It is inferred that the degradation of water landscapes in contemporary cities is the result of a historical process of appropriation of the natural landscape by human beings, which, at the mercy of hegemonic forces, occurred in an unreflective, rational and compulsory manner. Victims of this context, these courses lost their protagonism in the urban landscape, and, consequently, their participation in the collective imaginary about nature in the city. In Goiânia, the Buritis stream was gradually channeled and made invisible because, since the city's establishment in the 1930s, it was seen as a small course to be drained and its participation in the urban landscape was reduced to the section delimited for the Bosque of Buritis. Given the current invisibility of the waters of this stream and the lack of recognition regarding its existence, it is through the search for clues and signs of its participation in the urban landscape that this research intends to investigate it – portraying its landscape transformations over time and investigating the urban imaginary that surrounds it. The methods historiographic and case study enable the crossing between bibliographical research and historical-documentary investigation, the field survey of Buritis's invisible path and the collection of stories and reports from those people who, in some way, relate to it. Therefore, with the aim of portraying the landscape transformations undergone by this stream and investigating its urban imaginary, this research contributes not only to the historiography of Goiânia and to the recognition and appreciation of the natural landscape linked to Buritis, but also intends to guide future visions and approaches that involve watercourses and their natural landscapes in Goiânia.