Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:21:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Licia Perote 1.pdf: 10102675 bytes, checksum: c2b672c0e65f22c03421d29c19138398 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-30 / Around 51 million people live in the Brazilian Northeastern Region facing critical periods of dryness and floods. In order to minimize the problems caused by the inconstant rains, Federal Government has invested resources on the implementation of programs to make feasible the strategical storage of water by means of barriers and dams. As a part of such strategy, the Castanh?o dam, in Cear? state, had its construction started in 1995, having one major impact: the submergence of Jaguaribara, a city 283 km away from Fortaleza. Among threatening, resistance, insecurity, dynamic acceptance and arrival to the new land, people were relocated in another site, rising a new municipality which was named Nova (New) Jaguaribara, inaugurated in 2001. Since its birth, this city features the history of the inlander people, afflicted by dryness and disputes for the power that water represents in the Northeastern midland context. / Cerca de 51 milh?es de brasileiros vivem no Nordeste enfrentando per?odos cr?ticos de estiagem e enchentes. Na tentativa de minimizar as mazelas causadas pelas irregularidades pluviom?tricas, o Governo Federal lan?ou recursos para a implanta??o de programas que viabilizassem a forma??o de estoque estrat?gico de ?gua por meios de barramentos e a?udagem. O reservat?rio do Castanh?o, no Cear?, faz parte dessa estrat?gia e surgiu no ano de 1995 tendo como grande impacto o desaparecimento da cidade de Jaguaribara, situada a 283 km de Fortaleza. Entre amea?as, resist?ncia, inseguran?a, aceita??o din?mica e chegada ? nova terra, a popula??o ? relocada para um outro s?tio, dando origem ao novo munic?pio, que recebeu o nome de Nova Jaguaribara, inaugurada no ano de 2001. A cidade nasce marcada pela hist?ria do povo sertanejo, uma trajet?ria castigada por conta da seca e das disputas pelo poder que a ?gua representa neste espa?o que determina a conjuntura do sert?o brasileiro.