%0 Journal Article %T Os prim¨®rdios da organiza o do espa o territorial e da vila cearense: algumas notas %A Clovis Ramiro Juc¨˘ Neto %J Anais do Museu Paulista: Hist¨®ria e Cultura Material %D 2012 %I Universidade de S?o Paulo %X This paper presents, in outline, the action taken by economic agents, representatives of the Church and the Portuguese State in organizing the space of the Captaincy of Cear¨˘ in the eighteenth century. The Portuguese State founded towns in strategic locations for better capitalization of the cattle breeder economy, where first settled sesmeiros and the Church. There was no reason or justification of geopolitical nature that demanded technical and financial investments by the Portuguese in the full adequacy of the local conditions to Portuguese urban guidelines. In the face of the late occupation, the article also discusses the late cartographic representation as expressing the lack of interests of the Portuguese administration in relation to a fuller understanding of the region. %U http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=27322910006