%0 Journal Article %T SITUA O AMBIENTAL DO IGARAP¨¦ MIRANDINHA (CANALIZA O) %A Marcio Farkas TONELLO %A Eliene da Silva FERREIRA %A Oliveira Monteiro RODRIGUES %A Vladimir de SOUZA %J Revista ACTA Geogr¨˘fica %D 2008 %I Universidade Federal de Roraima %X The action human, especially associated to the population occupation in a disordered way, it has been carting several environmental problems to the urban creek of Boa Vista, taking the public managers develop her several action types in those areas, as for instance, the canalization of passages of some creeks. Inside of that context, the present work proposes the approach of the canalization of the Mirandinha creek, detaching their main impacts for the society and the environment. As it can be observed, the Mirandinha creek already possesses significant part of his channeled passage, what provoked the complete modification of the morphology of the bed of the channel and also the alteration of the margins of the creek in the channeled area, descaracterizando totally the natural configuration of the same. %K Mirandinha creek %K Environmental Situation %K Canalization %U http://www.ufrr.br/revista/index.php/actageo/issue/view/38/showToc