Pará reaches the mark of 1 million titled hectares
The number was achieved thanks to Sicarf - a pioneering technology in Brazil, created in Pará, and already adopted in other federative units
The Institute of Lands of Pará (Iterpa) presented, this Monday, 10, the first day of the 30th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP30), in Belém, a historic advance in land regularization in the state: reaching the mark of 1 million hectares of titled land in Pará.
The achievement is due to the Land Registration and Regularization System (Sicarf) - a pioneering technology in Brazil, created in Pará, which uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and allows for greater speed in the regularization process. The system is already a model to be followed by other states, such as Maranhão, which saw a 900% increase in land regularization since adopting the technology.
The advisor to the presidency and coordinator of Urban Regularization at Iterpa, Gabriel Natário, detailed during the panel presented this morning that the creation of the technology in 2019 promoted an unprecedented advance in the land regularization process in Pará, making Sicarf the largest urban regularization program in the country.
“Before the system, we were operating like in the 70s, in a completely manual process, without relevance and legal security - especially documentary. And, from the system, we start to bring a new panorama for land regularization achieving unimaginable results, being the state that regularizes the most, both in rural and urban areas,” he commented.
Technology increases productivity - Natário explains that Sicarf is a unique platform that enables the registration of state public lands and also the request, processing, communication, and analysis of processes related to regularization, with the differential of using advanced georeferencing technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) that allows for greater automation and precision of the work, elevating the results.
“The number of regularizations increased by 600% if we consider the number of titles delivered in 6 years. In previous administrations, it was from one thousand to two thousand titles. But currently, we have 43 thousand regularized areas throughout the state of Pará,” details Gabriel Natário.
According to data from Iterpa, since the beginning of operations with Sicarf, more than 1 million hectares have already been regularized in Pará, which is equivalent to 77 thousand Mangueirão (PA) stadiums or 95 thousand Maracanã (RJ) stadiums. The average productivity has also increased: before the system, the Institute delivered only 1,700 titles per year; today, Iterpa delivers 1,000 land titles per month - an annual volume of approximately 12 thousand titles.
The waiting time for the process has also been positively affected by the technology: before Sicarf, the land title took an average of 8.5 years to be ready. Now, the entire process takes between 15 and 60 days.
“Since 2019 we made this key turn and have been implementing these technologies so that the regularization work is faster and serves everyone - small, medium, or large land occupants, as well as the quilombola population. In a way that the citizen can make their request through the system, completely digitally, in addition to the actions promoted by the State Government, in which the State goes to the citizen,” comments the director of agrarian and land development at Iterpa, Mariceli Moura.
Only in 2025, in urban areas, Iterpa, through Sicarf, was able to carry out the largest delivery of urban titles in Brazil, with more than 3 thousand titles delivered in a single neighborhood. In total, from January until now, the Institute has already delivered more than 17 thousand urban titles benefiting more than 67 thousand people in Pará.
Reference for Brazil - In light of the results, the system gained national recognition, with awards such as that from the National Justice Corregedoria (CNJ), which celebrates the technological advancements and excellence in Iterpa's work, made possible by the implementation of Sicarf.
The platform has become a model to be followed nationally, in addition to being integrated into the Federal Government's database - a result of the agreement signed with the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Family Agriculture. In other states where the tool has already been implemented, the results are also gaining notoriety, as in the case of Maranhão, where the Institute of Colonization and Lands of Maranhão (Iterma) has been operating with Sicarf for 4 years.
“With Sicarf, and all the technological package it brought, we can have a significant advance in the land regularization process. We went from 500 titles per year to a total of 5 thousand in just one year. So this shows the effectiveness of Sicarf in Maranhão, in just four years,” celebrates the coordinator of Land Actions at Iterma, Marcelo Viana.
Sicarf - federative units with a contract:
Pará;
Amapá;
Maranhão;
Roraima;
Rondônia;
Bahia;
DF (Federative Sicarf - MDA)
