“…The Brazilian Southeast Region concentrated more than 70% of the study areas (Table 3), with the state of São Paulo standing out with almost 48% of participation. The Northeast Region appears in second place with seven publications (14.6%), distributed among the cities of Salvador, Bahia (BRITO, 2010;BRITO et al, 2008;HACKER et al, 2013), João Pessoa, Paraíba (DA PENHA PACHÊCO et al, 2014), Natal (LAPOLA et al, 2019, and Mossoró (FIDELIS-MEDEIROS; GRIGIO, 2019), both in Rio Grande do Norte. For the Southern Region, there is only the work of Matias and Nascimento (2006), which identified areas of irregular settlements in the city of Ponta Grossa, Paraná, and the work of Lapola et al ( 2019), which identified urban heat islands in Curitiba, Paraná and Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul.…”