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The study conducted in the cities of Atalaia do Norte, Benjamin Constant and Tabatinga, Amazonas state, in the triple border between Brazil and Colombia, Peru, demonstrates how the use of thematic maps, which considers the social production of space can aid in understanding the process health and disease prevention and actions to public health. We mapped different places of collective use such as parks, bars, hotels, motels and nightclubs and in the preparation of maps, we established a classification of these locations, as their activities, approximate number of visitors, among other elements of the social representation of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV in order to choose the places with greater relevance to the actions to promote sexual health. The thematic maps that identify the circuits of leisure and entertainment in cities in part reproduce the methodology Situational Analysis of Sexual Health India - Sash used in 2001 by Lambert, Bharat and other researchers in similar urban areas.With the production of cartographic databases, GIS enabled the organization to generate different thematic maps, which are exposed in the distribution and location of points classified according to their relevance to practice preventive sexual health. We conclude that the mapping studies in public health and, above all, the correct interpretation of them can contribute to the policy direction of sexual health in the border region in preventive STD and understanding of the processes of health-disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]