Territorial surveys and formation of geographical knowledge in Strategic Telegraph Commission of Mato Grosso to the Amazon (1907-1915)

Abstract

The present article aims to analyze the works of land survey and inventory of the northwest territory of the country carried out by military engineers from the Strategic Telegraph Commission of Mato Grosso to the Amazon. Available information show that the activities developed by these military within the Commission were straightly connected to raids that were aiming for the knowledge of the main rivers of the region and their tributaries, determining so the possibility of their use for the territorial penetration. The goal is to show an analysis from different geographic knowledge, produced in practice, through the performance of these military engineers.