The brazilian government unreservedly supported the occupation of the Amazon with highly subsidized credits to replace the forest for agropastoral activities with the justification that needed to occupy that region to national sovereignty. Thus, the federal government has invested heavily in the region, without any environmental concern, and the country of Alta Floresta in the Far North of the Mato Grosso State, product of this government project. This anthropocentric view generated huge negative externalities to different agroecosystems. The purpose of this study was to assess the level of environmental degradation Watershed Mariana located in Alta Floresta/MT, using secondary data (research reports, articles, theses, etc.) and primary (interviews with political leaders, farmers, etc.), guided by a theoretical -methodological apparatus. Soil samples for evaluation of physical and chemical attributes with data collected in the area of permanent preservation (APP) and the environment (ENT), semi-structured interviews, oral history and adoption of landmark Evaluation of Natural Resource Management Systems (MESMIS, its Spanish acronym) for construction of indicators of environmental sustainability within the systemic approach, involving different social actors (farmers and urban). We applied four techniques of multivariate statistics were (Factor Analysis for Multiple Correspondence, Principal Components Analysis Nonlinear, Multivariate Analysis of Variance and Ascendant Hierarchical Classification) which identified two management systems of MBM with which indicators were constructed to compare the sustainability of them. From the results obtained, it was found that the soils wathersed Mariana are degraded in which: 74.5% of the areas of establishments (APP and ENT) macroporosity showed less than 10%, 78% of soils in the APP in the 0-0,20 m showed a density higher of 1.5 Mg m -3 , 64.8% of the studied areas are with the soil resistance to penetration ranging from 2.5 to 5 MPa, the base saturation identified that most soils need to correct acidity due to average results that accuse 46% (APP) and 44% (ENT) of this indicator, and 29.4% of agroecosystems showed content of organic matter lower or equal to 20 g dm -3 . The x methodology MESMIS identified that rural areas that lies far from the ideal of sustainability in view of the low aggregate index obtained in cluster 1 (35%) and cluster 2 (35.2%), supported by the vision of urban social actors which reached 40.2%, generating the overall average rate of 36.8%, indicating that the watersed Mariana is in "not sustainable or critical" condition. It is concluded that the environmental recovery of that territory requires immediate adoption of public policies, built with farmers through the implementation of a project for watershed rehabilitation and soil conservation as well as the applicability of the agricultural extension service, within a agroecological vision, so that together with the farmers, as protagonists, paths are constructed in the pursuit of sustainable rural ...