Diagnóstico geoambiental da microbacia do córrego Água Quente em Rio Quente/GO

Abstract

The hydrographic basins must be seen as an integrated system, where it can be analyzed from the water cycle, fauna, flora to the interference of man. In this sense, studying them can be a tool for human and environmental analysis. You should not attach importance of a watercourse just to its size. This dissertation brings into analysis the Água Quente Microbasin. Although its small size in volume, and in area, it brings with it an economic and social environmental relationship. Located in the municipality of Rio Quente-Go, its waters are the center of local tourism. In turn, thermal tourism is the main economic base. Tourism that possible herons to its own environmental characteristics, in particular outcropping of the thermal waters. The Geothermal gradient Responsible for thermal waters results from geology and morphology. From the source to the mouth, man enjoys the soil and water in specific ways, tourism and urban abstraction in the high course, real estate speculation, and livestock in the medium and low course. Arguably the various forms of use have an important environmental impact