Desdobramento do Polo Industrial de Camaçari: o polo empresarial governador César Borges, Dias D’ávila-Ba

Abstract

The establishment of an urban-industrial pattern of accelerated economic growth of the 1970s, ensured by the merging of municipalities with integrated planning in the Metropolitan Regions (RM) in 1973, led to the urbanization of spaces with different local characteristics. This trend of urban-industrial homogenization transformed the territorial dynamics of Dias d'Ávila. The territory of Dias d'Ávila, located in the best aquifer of the Recôncavo Baiano, had its identity centralized in its waters and the economic activities linked to this centrality. In the process of acceleration of growth with the implementation of a growth pole in Bahia, the Complexo Petroquímico of Camaçari (COPEC), the territorial identity of Dias d'Ávila was deconstructed. After 39 years of implementation, COPEC, since 2000, started to have a more diversified pattern, being called the Polo Industrial of Camaçari (PIC), but Dias d'Ávila still has challenges to be faced. In this study we can see the transformations in the historical territorialization in Dias d'Ávila, the removal of a subjective identity with the waters, the transformations that occurred with the urban expansion in the industrial urbanization process, the urban-environmental pattern resulting from this expansion, the Territorial tensions, as well as, the emergent of the Polo Empresarial Governador César Borges (PEGCB) arising from urban-industrial pressure imposed by metropolization in order to constitute a new Local industrial identity.