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This article propose to articulate the global movement of the colonization in the 18th century to the local development of the Santa Catarina island. Starting from an general picture, based in a consolidate historiography about Portuguese America, arriving in the specific, where cartographic documents and official correspondences has been incorporated to the specialized bibliography about the region. Nevertheless, this paper shows how the fortifications in the island and the Azorean immigration are spatialisations from the conflicts and broader processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]