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morphopedology, soil classes, land use.
The morphopedological approach when using the soil-relief-geology relationship of a given area enables the understanding of the landscape structure, serving as a basis for implementing environmental policies for land use and occupation. Study area comprises the municipality of Bom Jesus, State of Rio Grande do Norte, located in an area of geopedoclimatic transition, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, comprising a context where information on the physical environment, on a regional scale, cannot meet the level of detail demanded by environmental management at the scale of the place. In this context, the objective of the present work is to carry out a morphopedological analysis of the municipality of Bom Jesus-RN, based on the methodology of Castro and Salomão (2000), with field surveys, laboratory and mapping of units in a GIS environment. Three subclasses of QUARTZARENIC NEOSOLS and one of CHROMIC LUVISOLS were identified. The combination of soil-relief-geology enabled the compartmentalization into four morphopedological units, with surfaces ranging from flat to smoothly wavy. The use and occupation of the land identified eight classes: short cycle crops 50.53%, grasses / pastures 18.09%, sparse Caatinga 18.96%, dense Caatinga 1.50% and hydrography with 2.64% of the municipal area. In view of the results presented, it was verified the importance of understanding the morphogenetic processes and their classification, as well as the uses associated with the compartments. Thus, in addition to contributing to a better understanding of the geology-soil-relief relationship in the landscape structure, the perspective of this work is to enable subsidies for decision making by public managers in the planning and territorial management of the municipality.