Capixaba (Acre)

Município de Capixaba Capixaba
Avenida Edmundo Pinto, Capixaba.
Capixaba
Coordinates	10 ° 34 ′  S , 67 ° 41 ′  W Coordinates: 10 ° 34 ′  S , 67 ° 41 ′  W
Capixaba on the map of the state of Acre
founding	January 1, 1993
Basic data
Country	Brazil
State	acre
Região intermediária	Rio Branco (since 2017)
Região imediata	Rio Branco (since 2017)
height	196 m
surface	1702 km²
Residents	8798 (2010)
density	5.2  Ew. / km²
estimate	11,733 (July 1, 2019)
Parish code	IBGE : 1200179
Time zone	UTC -5
politics
City Prefect	Otavio Guimaraes Varêda (2017–2020)
Political party	Partido Progressista (PP)
economy
GDP	159,367  thousand R $ 15,181  R $ per capita (2015)
HDI	0.575 (2010)

Capixaba , officially Município de Capixaba , is a small town in the southeast of the Brazilian state of Acre .

According to the 2010 census, the community has 8,798 inhabitants, who are called Capixabens. The number of inhabitants was calculated according to the IBGE's estimate of July 1, 2019 at 11,733 residents. The area is 1,701.974 km² (2017), the population density is 5.2 people per km². The distance to the capital Rio Branco is 77 km.

The place arose from former rubber tree plantings, including the Seringal Gavião, from which it received its first name as Vila Gavião . After a school and a church were built, former rubber tappers settled there. The town received city ​​status as município on January 1, 1993.

A territorial reform in 1997 confirmed it as the seat of the district of the same name.

Adjacent cities are Xapuri and Senador Guiomard . Capixaba is a border town with Bolivia .

With the villages Acrelândia , Bujari , Plácido de Castro , Porto Acre , Rio Branco and Senador Guimard formed Capixabe to 2017, the micro-region of Rio Branco , which in turn formed with the micro-regions Brasileia and Sena Madureira the mesoregion Vale do Acre .

After the local elections in 2016, José Augusto Gomes da Cunha (Zé Augusto) from the Progressive Party (PP), who replaced his predecessor Otavio Guimaraes Varêda from the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB), is city prefect for the 2017-2020 term .

Web links

Commons : Capixaba  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Município de Capixaba on the website cidade-brasil.com.br (Brazilian Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} IBGE : Cidades @: Capixaba - Panorama. Retrieved August 29, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
2. ↑ IBGE : Cidades @: Capixaba: História . Retrieved September 29, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).