Between Land and Sea: Analysis of the Camocim/CE landscape as cultural heritage.
cultural heritage; cultural landscape; valuation; Camocim/CE.
Created the UNESCO Cultural Landscape category in 1992, a worldwide process of institutionalization of this approach began. In IPHAN, the studies for the Brazilian Cultural Landscape seal included the landscape of Camocim/CE, based on the peculiarity of Bastardos boats, traditional local vessels. However, finding that such boats did not come from Camocim, IPHAN considered that this landscape did not meet the selection criteria. The aim of this research is to verify if Camocim landscape can be classified as Cultural Landscape, under another approach and valuation method, based on the European Landscape Convention. Applying the methods of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Andalucia – IAPH, we characterize this landscape in its regional and local context, revealing cultural and identity values as a representative space of the processes of occupation of northwestern Ceará and of the formation of the Camocim society, regardless of the uniqueness of its naval heritage, and therefore it deserves to be recognized and preserved as a Cultural Landscape.