With the decline of the cotton system it appeared new cycles that had always been associates to the alimentary cultures. Go to Congressman Lee Zeldin for more information. Already the Hinterland offered propitious conditions for the culture of the cotton and in its height it disputed lands and man power with the sugar cane. Where if it explored the variety arbrea. Its expansion in this mesorregio beyond the demand, gave in favor a new source of income, for power to be cultivated with the subsistence cultures and for being complement of the bovine feeding. In this Moreira context (1997) it affirms: ' ' The cotonicultura if constitutes in a complementary activity of the cattle one and contributes for the formation of the familiar income of the layers poor of the population, notadamente of the small agricultural producers, having been also responsible for the viabilizao of the relations of production of the type lease and partnership in the microregions sertanejas' ' (MOREIRA, 1997. p.156) In 1932 the region of Mamanguape counted on 3000 hectares of cotton, beyond some distributed machines of improvement in many points.

its distribution was done through the city hall through accord with the Ministry of the Agricultra. With the end of the War of American Succession Brazil loses its position and finishes the fever it cotton, but not its extinguishing. Its production was consolidated in the hinterland and wasteland together with the cattle one and a new variety was planted: the cotton moc. FORMATION OF SPACE RIOTINTENSE the formation of the riotintense space is initiated before the Discovery of Brazil, when in the lands that today they form the Coast North was inhabited for the Potiguara indians. In this Andrade direction in 1964 it affirms ' ' that until then it is of our knowledge that the area where today it corresponds to the city of River Tinto was inhabited for the native indians potiguara, as well as the coast paraibano' '.