Identification of land use conflicts in Permanent Preservation Area in a Brazilian Amazon sub-basin

The southern region of the Amazon stands out for growing agricultural development and installation large hydroelectric projects. Given this scenario, objective study was to quantify Áreas de Preservação Permanente (APPs), Permanent Preservation Areas, water bodies Teles Pires river basin according current legislation, checking whether there is conflict regarding use occupation these areas, then check occurrence degradation identify environmental fragility area. Using Modified Normalized Difference Water Index (MNDWI), located in area were delineated APPs delimited Law 12,651/2012. To existence conflicts within a map land generated through Maximum Likelihood supervised classification, which compared with limits APPs, considering areas whose related anthropic activities. Lastly, potential emerging calculated, data slope, soil type cover/land use. APP comprised 3.96% total it showed state low degradation, 83.83% conserved under native vegetation cover 15.93% showing conflicting use, by pastures standing out, among categories mapped headwaters most impacted. spatialization indicated that has very different conservation pattern, critical concentrated center-east, where municipalities have more than 40% occupied activities are located. north higher fragility, attenuated great protection.