Cem anos do Porto do Rio Grande? memória e esquecimento de um Porto Velho e de uma “Barra Diabólica”.

Abstract

This work’s main purpose is to investigate the reasons why the Rio Grande Harbor authorities maintain the year 1915 as institution activities starting point, celebrated annually, and why they omit time prior to this in celebrations. Why celebrate only a century – which was in 2015 – if officially the Harbor has nearly 280 years of operation since it was established in city formation, in the year 1737? Studying this forgotten period it has been necessary to pass through the Harbor history and point out landmarks, prior to 1915. So, the methodology used was qualitative research, with bibliographical and data review and the working method was evidential analysis and oral history. Also, present in the celebrations, memory and oblivion policies issues have been studied, which can also be regarded as places of memory and the invention of tradition. As a result, we conclude that in these celebrations there is an oversight by default taken by a lack of its authorities belonging, which results in a port identity weakening, and there has been also an operation facility due to Molhes da Barra opening and due to technics and structure modernization, which the New Harbor led from 1915 forward Old Harbor pier depth insufficiency in this time.