Seven new cities of Mato Grosso

Abstract

This article focuses on the study of seven new cities in Mato Grosso emerged from the 1970s as a result of public policies of colonization promoted during the military regime in the arc of land surrounding the Amazônia and eventually resulted in the advancement of call agricultural frontier, which in late 1990 was consolidated with the development of modern agricultural production expands in the Midwest. If earlier these processes have raised numerous villages that functioned as simple cores support the settlers who came later these villages became dynamic host cities of new municipalities involved in agribusiness. Are examined in this article the cities of Sinop, Sorriso, Lucas do Rio Verde, Nova Mutum, Campo Novo do Parecis Campo Verde and Primavera do Leste.