2026-02-202026-02-202026-02-11CAMPOS, Camilly Serrão. Uso e cobertura da terra na fronteira amazônica: a expansão da pecuária na microrregião de Parauapebas (Pa). Orientador: Daniel Araújo Sombra Soares. 2026. 38 f. Trabalho de Curso (Licenciatura em Geografia) – Campus Universitário de Ananindeua, Universidade Federal do Pará, Ananindeua, 2026. Disponível em: https://bdm.ufpa.br/handle/prefix/9231. Acesso em:.https://bdm.ufpa.br/handle/prefix/9231This article analyzes the role of extensive cattle ranching in transforming land use and land cover patterns in the Parauapebas Microregion, located in southeastern Pará, within the context of the Amazonian frontier. The research problem focuses on understanding how the expansion of cattle ranching has reconfigured the territory and generated socio-environmental impacts, particularly related to deforestation, environmental degradation, and land conflicts. The main objective is to examine the territorial, social, and environmental implications of cattle ranching, considering its historical and economic centrality in the region. Methodologically, the study adopts a mixed approach, integrating a qualitative analysis of the historical process of territorial occupation with quantitative procedures based on cartographic and statistical data. Land use and land cover data from the MapBiomas project, collection 10, for the years 1995, 2005, 2014, and 2024 were used, organized into approximately ten-year intervals aligned with the legal frameworks of the 1965 Forest Code and the 2012 New Forest Code. The spatio-temporal analysis was conducted through raster data cross-comparison, complemented by information from official institutions such as IBGE, SEMAS-PA, FUNAI, and ICMBio, processed using geoprocessing techniques in ArcGIS 10.4.1 software. The results indicate that the period between 1995 and 2005 concentrated the most intense conversion of forest areas into pasturelands, confirming cattle ranching as the main driver of landscape transformation. In subsequent periods, the consolidation of the cattle ranching matrix is observed alongside the expansion of mining and agriculture, as well as the concentration of remaining forest cover within protected areas. The study concludes that the territorial dynamics of the Parauapebas Microregion reveal the contradictions of a development model based on extensive land use, in which weak territorial and environmental governance intensify socio-spatial inequalities and threatens the conservation of Amazonian ecosystems.Acesso AbertoFronteira amazônicaUso da terraCobertura da terraPecuária extensivaAmazon frontierLand useLand coverExtensive cattle ranchingCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::GEOGRAFIA::GEOGRAFIA HUMANA::GEOGRAFIA AGRARIATrabalho de Curso - Graduação - ArtigoAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Brazil