Tarauacá

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Tarauacá (disambiguation) .

Município de Tarauacá Tarauacá
Aerial view of Tarauacá
Tarauacá
Coordinates	8 ° 10 ′  S , 70 ° 46 ′  W Coordinates: 8 ° 10 ′  S , 70 ° 46 ′  W
Location of Tarauacá in the state of Acre
founding	January 1, 1907
Basic data
Country	Brazil
State	acre
Mesoregion	Vale do Juruá (1989-2017)
Microregion	Tarauacá (1989-2017)
height	168 m
Waters	Rio Tarauacá
surface	20,171.1 km²
Residents	35,590 (2010)
density	1.8  Ew. / km²
estimate	42,567 Ew. (July 1, 2019)
Time zone	UTC -5
Website	www.tarauaca.ac.gov.br (Brazilian Portuguese)
politics
City Prefect	Marilete Vitorino de Siqueira (2017-2020)
Political party	(PSD)
HDI	0.539 (2010)

Tarauacá , officially Município de Tarauacá , is a medium- sized town in the northwest of the Brazilian state of Acre with around 42,500 inhabitants, who are called Tarauacese. It is the fourth largest city in Acre in terms of population. It is 381 km from the capital Rio Branco and borders the state of Amazonas in the north .

history

The territory is the original settlement area of Kaxinawás and Yaminawáa along the Rio Tarauacá and the Rio Muru. The rubber plantation Seringal Foz do Muru ("mouth of the Muru") achieved economic importance for the area that belonged to Bolivia until the Treaty of Petrópolis in 1903 , from 1904 the area was administered by the Department do Alto Juruá . Foz do Muru was the core of a small settlement on the river, which on January 1, 1907 was elevated to Vila Seabra , named after the then Justice and Interior Minister José Joaquim Seabra . This date is considered the founding date in the city's history. In 1912 the area was spun off from the Departamento do Alto Juruá and the Departamento do Tarauacá , a word from the Indian languages, was established.

On April 24, 1913, the place received the right to self-government as a Munizip under the name Município de Seabra with Antônio Antunes de Alencar as the first city prefect. For the territory, the Comarca de Tarauacá judicial district, which is not identical with the municipal area, was also formed on April 19, 1913 . In 1943 Seabra was renamed Municío de Tarauacá .

geography

Tarauacá borders the state of Amazonas in the north, the municipality of Jordão in the south , Feijó to the east , the cities of Cruzeiro do Sul and Porto Walter to the west, and Marechal Thaumaturgo to the south-west . As of 2018, the area is 20,171.075 km², the population density is a low 1.8 inhabitants per km².

In addition to Jordão, the second highest number of Terras Indígenas (protected areas for the Indians) are distributed on the territory with eight, to which around 9.8% of the land is allocated.

The city lies on the river of the same name, Rio Tarauacá , the small inland port is the landing and departure point for the southern Jordão, which is not connected to the road network. The Rio Muru flows north of the city into the Tarauacá.

The territory is at risk of earthquakes , with values ​​of 6.7 on the Richter scale in 2016 .

City administration

City Prefect (Mayor) is Marilete Vitorino de Siqueira from the Partido Social Democrático (PSD) for the 2017 to 2020 term of office , which prevailed in the local elections in 2016 with 8,589 votes against her predecessor Rodrigo Damasceno Catão, who received 7,572.

The legislature lies with the Câmara Municipal de Tarauacá, the city council with 11 elected representatives.

population

According to the 2010 IBGE census, the population was 35,590. The number was estimated by the IBGE as of July 1, 2019 at 42,567 residents.

She distributed in 2010 to 19,351 people in the (urban) local area and 16,239 persons in the huge rural area stretching along the rivers in small settlements in the protected areas and the Nutzreservat Reserva extrativista Riozinho da Liberdade distribute. Around 42% in 2010 were children and young people up to the age of 15. The Human Development Index (HDI or IDH-M for short) was low at 0.539.

Population development

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

Infrastructure

Tarauacá airport

Tarauacá is located on the diagonal BR-364 federal road , which connects to the northwest to Peru and to the southeast via the states of Rondônia , Mato Grosso and Goiás to São Paulo . There are no other roads in the municipality, other parts of the municipality can be reached by boat via the tributaries of the Rio Tarauacá and Rio Muru. The town is connected to the nearest international airports in Cruzeiro do Sul or Rio Branco through the small urban airport Aeroporto de Tarauacá (IATA: TRQ , ICAO: SBTK ), mainly by small aircraft and air taxis .

education

Tarauacá had an illiteracy rate of 65.2% in 1991 , which had already fallen to 42.3% in the 2010 census.

Illiteracy rate
year				percent
1991			65.2
2000			53.6
2010			42.3

literature

• Governo do Estado do Acre: Acre em números 2013 . Rio Branco 2013.

Web links

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

• City Prefecture website (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Tarauacá on the Governo do Acre website (Brazilian Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} IBGE : Cidades @ Acre: Tarauacá. Retrieved September 9, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
2. ↑ IBGE: Cidades @ Acre: Tarauacá - histórico. Retrieved January 4, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
3. ↑ Earthquake Track , accessed January 4, 2017.
4. ↑ Posse do Prefeito Eleito 2017 - Candidatos a Prefeito 2016 - TARAUACA AC. Retrieved January 4, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
5. ↑ ^{a b} Tarauacá AC - Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano no Brasil. Retrieved January 4, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).