The purpose of this text is to discuss the complex process of the Brazilian agrarian camp formation under the account of the data presented by the I Censo da Reforma Agrária do Brasil. This text intends to show that the building of a new way of life by the settled people is very beyond the mere polemic of the numbers, all entailing relativity. Although its importance can not be denied, it must be observed that the census itself does not show the reality of the encampments: their problems, their difficulties, their strategies of permanence in the areas, and their conviction as "social produced space". The publication of this census, however urges us to the countless issues involving the very serious problem of land property in Brazil.
