Jordao (Acre)

Município de Jordão Jordão
View of the city with the airfield, on the right the Rio Jordão
Jordão
Coordinates	9 ° 26 ′  S , 71 ° 53 ′  W Coordinates: 9 ° 26 ′  S , 71 ° 53 ′  W
Location of Jordão in the state of Acre
founding	April 28, 1992
Basic data
Country	Brazil
State	acre
Região intermediária	Cruzeiro do Sul (since 2017)
Região imediata	Tarauacá (since 2017)
Mesoregion	Vale do Juruá (1989-2017)
Microregion	Tarauacá (1989-2017)
height	278 m
Waters	Rio Jordão
climate	tropical, Aw
surface	5,357.3 km²
Residents	6577 (2010)
density	1.2  Ew. / km²
estimate	8317 Ew. (July 1, 2019)
Parish code	IBGE : 1200328
Post Code	69975-000 to 69979-999
Time zone	UTC -5
Website	jordao.ac.gov.br (Brazilian Portuguese)
politics
City Prefect	Elson Farias (2017-2020)
Political party	(PCdoB)
economy
GDP	73,111  thousand R $ 9737 R $ per person  (2015)
HDI	0.469 (2010)

7, 8: Protected areas in the municipality of Jordão.

Jordão , officially Portuguese Município de Jordão , is a small town in the Brazilian state of Acre with an estimated population of 8,317 as of July 2019. The municipality, which is very large for the population, borders Peru in the south , but is only a border area. It contains 10 Terras indigenous around 32 indigenous forest villages (Aldeias) and comprises about 62% of the Nutzreservates Reserve extrativista do Alto Tarauacá . The place can be reached by river and air traffic.

Toponymy

Jordão means Jordan , although it is not certain whether the name was derived from the river Jordan or a person of that name.

geography

Jordão is located in the extreme west of Brazil in the Amazon rainforest at an altitude of 278 m. With an area of ​​5,357.3 km², the population density is 1.2 inhabitants per km². Next to the main town are small settlements along the rivers.

To the north lies the municipality of Tarauacá , to the west of Marechal Thaumaturgo and to the east of Feijó .

history

Jordão's territory is a traditional settlement area of ​​various tribes of the indigenous population. a. Rubber collectors invaded the area and built the Seringal Duas Nações , a plantation at the time of the rubber boom . The area was subject to the city of Tarauacá and formed a district there, the distrito de Jordão . In 1956 the village was elevated to Vila Jordão and after a referendum by State Law No. 1.034 of April 28, 1992, it became a Munizip as Município de Jordão . The municipality was changed again in December 1992, the place was spun off from Tarauacá, so that the city administration could come into force on January 1, 1993. Hilário de Holanda Melo was elected as the first city prefect (mayor). Jordão is the seat of the only district of the same name.

City administration

City prefect (mayor) is Elson Farias from the Partido Comunista do Brasil (PCdoB) for the 2017 to 2020 term of office , who was re-elected with 2012 votes in the 2016 local elections.

population

According to the 2010 IBGE census, the population was 6,577. The number was estimated by the IBGE as of July 1, 2019 at 8,317 residents.

In 1991 it was distributed among 127 inhabitants in the urban area and 4121 in the rural area, whereas in 2010 it was distributed to 2,272 people in the populated local area and to 5305 people in the extensive rural and forest areas.

Population development

Source: IBGE (figure for 2019 is only an estimate).

economy

Together with the surrounding municipalities of Feijó and Tarauacá , it formed the statistical-geographical microregion Tarauacá , one of the two microregions of the former mesoregion Vale do Juruá , from 1989 to 2017 . These are not regional authorities, but the municipalities, similar to the German district associations, can join forces to pursue common purposes.

The gross national product per capita was R $ 9736 in 2015, the human development index (HDI) the low value of 0.469. The average monthly income for 2016 was calculated at 1.4 times the Brazilian minimum wage of R $ 880.00 at the time , which is the equivalent of € 229.50. Many families are on welfare z. B. instructed by Bolsa Família .

Infrastructure

Jordão is not connected to the road network. Jordão can be reached from the capital Rio Branco via the BR-364 (Rodovia Juscelino Kubschek de Oliveira) to Tarauacá and from there by barge up the Rio Tarauacá . The distance to the capital is 450 km.

The Aeroporto do Jordão is a small airport that can be reached from Cruzeiro do Sul and Rio Branco.

education

The Jordão, which was largely undeveloped when the city was founded, had an illiteracy rate of 87.8% in 1991 , which had already fallen to 37.6% in the 2010 census.

Illiteracy rate
year				percent
1991			87.8
2000			69.4
2010			37.6

tourism

The place is the destination of slowly developing ethnotourism , for which it also organizes an Indio festival.

literature

• Governo do Estado do Acre: Acre em números 2013. Rio Branco 2013. (PDF; 3.74 MB; Brazilian Portuguese)

Web links

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

• City Prefecture website (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano do Brasil: Jordão. (Brazilian Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jordão climate: average temperature, weather by month, Jordão weather averages. In: climate-data.org. de.climate-data.org, accessed on October 6, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Information for 2010: Governo do Estado do Acre: Acre em números 2013. Rio Branco 2013, pp. 113, 116.
3. ↑ Ranking IDHM Municípios 2010. Accessed on February 16, 2015 (Portuguese).
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} IBGE : Cidades @ Acre: Jordão - Panorama. Retrieved September 9, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
5. ↑ IBGE: Cidades @ Acre: Jordão - História. Retrieved October 6, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
6. ↑ Posse do Prefeito Eleito 2017 - Candidatos a Prefeito 2016 - JORDAO AC. ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 3, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano do Brasil: Jordão. Retrieved January 3, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).