Porto Acre

Município de Porto Acre Porto Acre
Local museum in Porto Acre
Porto Acre
Coordinates	9 ° 36 ′  S , 67 ° 33 ′  W Coordinates: 9 ° 36 ′  S , 67 ° 33 ′  W
Location of the municipality in the state of Acre
founding	3rd January 1899 (age 121)
Basic data
Country	Brazil
State	acre
height	164 m
climate	tropical, Am
surface	2,604.9 km²
Residents	14,880 (2010)
density	5.7  Ew. / km²
estimate	18,504 (July 1, 2019)
Parish code	IBGE : 1200807
Post Code	69927-000
Telephone code	(+55)  68
Time zone	UTC -5
politics
City Prefect	Benedito Damasceno (2017-2020)
Political party	PROS
economy
GDP	223,222 thousand R $ 13,046  R $ per person  (2016)
HDI	0.576 (low) (2010)
Police station in Porto Acre

Porto Acre , officially Município de Porto Acre , is a small town in the Brazilian state of Acre . It is located on the left bank of the Rio Acre in the northeast of the state about 58 km north of the capital Rio Branco .

According to the 2010 census, the municipality has 14,880 inhabitants, who are called Portoacrensians. It ranks 12th in acre by population. According to the IBGE's estimate of July 1, 2019, the population was calculated to grow to 18,504 residents. The area is 2,604.885 km²; the population density is 5.7 people per km². In the north it forms a straight border with the state of Amazonas .

history

Porto Acre was founded as Puerto Alonso by the Bolivian government in 1899 (after then Bolivian President Severo Fernandez Alonso Caballero ) when the Acre area was part of Bolivia but was inhabited by Brazilian rubber collectors. The founding of the city was supposed to support the Bolivian claim to territory, but this failed. In the Acre War there was fighting around the city. Between 1899 and 1903 it was the capital of the declared Republic of Acre as Cidade do Acre . From 1903 the area was finally ruled by Brazil and the city was renamed Porto Acre. Some buildings from the rubber boom have survived to this day.

City administration

After the local elections in 2016, Bené Nascimento of the Partido Republicano da Ordem Social (PROS), who replaced his predecessor Carlinhos da Saúde from the Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB), is city ​​prefect (executive) after the 2016 local elections . The legislature lies with the Câmara Municipal (Munizipkammer), the city council chamber. The place is also the seat of the district of the same name, Distrito de Porto Acre .

economy

In addition to its function as a small inland river port, Porto Acre is of agricultural importance today. The place and the associated district is still predominantly a rural and forested area and a regional center of pig breeding .

Together with the municipalities of Acrelândia , Bujari , Capixaba , Plácido de Castro , Rio Branco and Senador Guiomard , it formed the geostatistical microregion Rio Branco of the IBGE from 1989 to 2017 , which in turn formed the mesoregion Vale do Acre , one of the microregions Brasileia and Sena Madureira two mesoregions in Acre.

traffic

Coming from the southwest of Rio Branco, the 55 km long state road AC-010 leads to Porto Acre. The international capital Rio Branco airport is around 70 km away.

An important transport route is the Rio Acre, which in the rainy season from January to May also leads further up to the state of Amazonas. To the south and west it touches the cities of Rio Branco, Xapuri , Epitaciolândia , Cobija in Bolivia, Assis Brasil and Iñapari in Peru .

Web links

Commons : Porto Acre  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Porto Acre - Informações sobres o município ea prefeitura. In: www.cidade-brasil.com.br. (Brazilian Portuguese). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Porto Acre climate: average temperature, weather by month, Porto Acre weather averages. In: de.climate-data.org. Retrieved September 30, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Cidades @ Acre: Porto Acre - Panorama. IBGE , accessed September 30, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
3. ↑ Porto Acre on www.ac.gov.br
4. ↑ Bené Damasceno 90 (Prefeito). In: todapolitica.com. Eleições 2016, accessed September 30, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
5. ↑ Eleições 2012: Carlinhos da Saúde 45 on the website www.eleicoes2012.info . Retrieved July 21, 2014 (Portuguese).