Mapping of Permanent Preservation Areas (PPA) of The Municipal District of Santo Antônio do Pinhal, SP: Base for Environmental Preservation

Abstract

The mapping of the Permanent Preservation Areas (PPAs) of the municipal district of Santo Antônio do Pinhal, SP, located in an area of great real estate interest in the Mantiqueira Moutains of São Paulo, neighbor of the touristic municipal district of Campos de Jordão, SP, became necessary. The need for producing cartographic documents is to support environmental authorities to establish plans for the preservation of these areas, especially the Permanent Preservation Areas (PPA) established by the Law 4,771/65 and regulated by the Resolutions CONAMA 302 and 303/2002. In that context, this work had as objective, the delimitation of permanent preservation areas (PPA) at the 1:50,000 scale. The analysis and results of the mapping of the permanent preservation areas of the municipal district of Santo Antônio do Pinhal revealed two situations that deserve attention: first, the total area of PPAs corresponds to an area of 7,218ha which is equivalent to 52.2% of the total area of the municipal district. This is very positive for the environmental point of view, however extremely restrictive for land use. The occurrence of PPAs in the class of “Top of Hills” reaches 4,227ha which correspond to 30.7% of the total area of the municipal district. This demonstrates the restrictive character of land use of that PPA class, especially in areas with undulated relief as it is the case of the geomorphological domain known as “Mar de Morros” where the study area is located.