Formação territorial e geografia histórica de São João do Cariri: notas jurídicas e políticas.

Abstract

Historical Geography is a branch of Human Geography that deals with the analyzes established between man and nature throughout history and space-time. In this perspective, they present possibilities for analyzes, characteristics, evolutions and productions of the spaces that appear as constitutive dimensions of human practices, allowing in this process the emergence of societies. In the present work, we will analyze the geographic space that favored the emergence of the municipality of São João do Cariri, which in its initial formation process flourishes in a strategic point located on the banks of the Taperoá River. We will consider the importance of the implantation of the first Catholic Church in the Cariris Velhos of Paraíba and that resulted in its territorial development. The municipality under study comprised 1/3 of the current territory of Paraíba, being one of the most important political and administrative centers of the State. From it came many of the cities that form the Cariris of Paraíba and other microregions. From the Crossing of Our Lady of Miracles in St. John of Cariri were born many of the churches and parishes that form the Diocese of Campina Grande. We will observe in this work the processes of ascension, decrease and which element subsists as a result of its historical past which is its traditional Festivity of its Orago.