Araujo, Maxwell Antonio Penha

dos Santos, Daniela Sara Alves

Ferreira, Nilson Clementino

Ribeiro, Noely Vicente

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Wildfire Recurrence at Quilombola Kalunga 66 
Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade Biodiversidade Brasileira, 10(1): 66, 2020 
 
 
 
Wildfire Recurrence at Quilombola Kalunga Territory (GO) 
 
 
Daniela Sara Alves dos Santos1*, Maxwell Antonio da Penha Araujo1, 
Nilson Clementino Ferreira1, Noely Vicente Ribeiro1 
 
 
1Laboratório de Processamento de Imagens e Geoprocessamento, Universidade Federal de Goiás 
(Lapig/UFG), Goiânia, Brasil 
* e-mail: saraalves.amb@gmail.com  
 
 
 
 
ABSTRACT – Kalunga Historical Site and Cultural Heritage was stablished by the law 
n°11.409/GO and regularized as Territory in federal scope in 2009. Its total area comprises 
three Goiás municipalities: Monte Alegre de Goiás, Teresina de Goiás e Cavalcante. 
Likewise, remnants of quilombola communities, which are “social groups that developed 
unique characteristics of land occupation, social, productive and religious organization 
throughout Brazilian historical formation” (LIMA,2012, p. 1), inhabit it. Due to being a 
protected area with restricted use, there is a significant amount of remnant vegetation, with 
large natural fuel disponibility. The practices of burning fields, among other community-
owned fire uses, considerably potentialize the wildifre occurence, what makes the 
understanding of the wildfire phenomenom, its dynamics and main occurence and 
spreading causes in Kalunga Territory necessary. Studies which seeks the interaction of 
social aspects with the physical characteristics of the examined area’s vegetation to 
mitigate and pre-empt environmental impacts are of paramount importance, focusing on 
geotechnology use for planning and fire fighting. The present Territory has expressive 
biologically, scenically, economically and socially relevant areas, which gives it a huge 
importance to the society and, mainly, to the traditional communities whose cultures are 
inserted within this environment. Therefore, it is sought to realize a(n) study/analysis about 
the occurence and recurrence of wildfires at the Quilombola Kalunga Territtory from Goiás 
between 2009 and 2019. For such purpose, there is going to be made a literature review on 
this theme, use of geotechnological tools and informations disposed at the “wildfire data 
bank” of the National Space Survey Institute (INPE), such as burnt outbreaks and burnt 
areas. These data are going to be supplemented with medium and high quality satellite 
images. This article is part of the “Development of the wildfire risk predictive model to the 
Quilombola Kalunga Territory (GO)” project, resulted by a partnership between CNPq and 
Prevfogo-Ibama. It is sought to assist the present fires diagnosis at the Territory and help 
with its management. Besides, the obtained results will contribute with environmental 
sensibility actions in Territory communtities. 
 
Keywords: wildfire, burnt outbreaks, geotechnologies, management, Cerrado. 
 


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