ABSTRACT
The estuary region was quite deserted, and no population resided here. There was a large homestead that exploited soils, especially the salt and rice paddies, that in times of greater need for hand labor hired workers from other regions, who moved there by a phenomenon of seasonal migration. These migrants eventually settle permanently in the homestead lands to work throughout the all year. The landowners only allowed families to build lightweight housing, so it wouldn’t give its inhabitants ownership rights, which led to the emergence of a technology that used the plant material available in this area of few resources, forming small buildings with wood structure coated with culm (long-stemmed vegetation) on the walls and roof. When setting up on this new territory the families also began to devote themselves to fishing and catching seafood, and built a stilts port, located in the town of Carrasqueira (Fig. 2), formed by a main corridor in wooden structure, from which each family made a derivation to moor it’s small boat and store it’s stuff (Martins & Souto).
