The "Cachoeira da Fumaça" State Park (PECF) is located between the municipalities of AlegreandIbitirama, in the Southern region of thrStateof Espírito Santo, comprising an area of approximately 162.50 hectares. Taking into account the environmental importance of PECF for the State of Espírito Santo, the need to protect the ecosystems of the Atlantic Forest and its associated formations, as well as the improvement of management techniques, this paper proposes subsidies to managers, through the generation of a suitability map with areas destined to public use, using multicriteria analysis and fuzzy logic. The materials used were:Orthophoto of Espírito Santo, contour lines map obtained from Geobases and a differential GPS was used to collect data in the field. The relevant factors for the assessment of aspects related to ecotourism that were used to produce suitability maps, following an order of priority established by the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method, were: waterfall factor, land use, water body (containing the rivers), trails, access sites, structures and slope. After the combination of factors, a suitability map for public usewas generated, with suitability surface showing the aptitude and representing the zoning of the PECF area for the proposed goal. From the zoning of the Conservation Unit, it was able to show areas with different degrees of aptitude to ecotourism according to their distances from the waterfall, trails, and the Atlantic Forest.
Ecotourism; Zoning; Multicriteria analysis
