Este artículo está bajo una licencia Atribución/Reconocimiento-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional Técia Regiane Bérgamo, Regina Célia de Oliveira. The Evolution of Landscape in Mining Areas in the Municipality of Santos, South Coast of the State of São Paulo 2017. A aerofoto do ano de 1962 mostra o processo de ocupação, porém os resultados comparativos do NDVI dos anos de 1986 e 2017 demonstraram uma recuperação natural da área. A esse processo natural, cabe a discussão sobre capacidade da área degradada em retornar a condição estável em conformidade com os valores ambientais, estáticos e sociais do entorno. Palavras chave: Paisagem, Mineração, Degradação, Desenvolvimento Sustentável. AbstractThe term landscape presents a conceptual variation within geographic science. In this work we will focus on the anthropogenic approach to the problems of changes and transformations in the landscape due to mining activities in the municipality of Santos. Mining is an activity essential to economic progress and development. However the activity presents several impacts leading to the alteration and the degradation of the landscape. The present work seeks to make a reading of the landscape, verifying the temporal changes that occurred from the 1960s to the present day in the mining areas, seeking to identify the state of development of the gradual changes that occurred throughout the period, thus proposing a reflection on the of the sustainable development of existing mining activities in the municipality of Santos. The comparative reading between the satellite images of different time scales was performed using the NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) for the years 1986 and 2017. The 1962 aerodrome shows the occupation process, but the comparative results of the NDVI from the years 1986 and 2017 demonstrated a natural recovery of the area. To this natural process, it is a question of the capacity of the degraded area to return to the stable condition in accordance with the environmental, static and social values of the environment.