In this research, we investigated the changes experienced by a community affected by the construction of a hydroelectric on the Paraná River. Ethnography procedures were used to conduct several visits to the community resettled in a planned and built village to replace the old one which was submerged. We established contacts with older residents and produced with them hold dialogues in various situations such as visits to their own houses and circle chats that took place on sidewalks. In their own words the riparian people perceived the area changes as something negative in all plans of life. They resent the river's loss, the plenty of fishing, the hunting held in the forests, the fertile land cultivated in the ravines, the sociality and all the production of subjectivity that they used to maintain in that place marked by the proximity with the river and its waters.
river; water; subjectivity; riparian; hydroelectric