State of Acre - North of Brazil

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ACRE MAP

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The state of Acre, known like land of rubber and land of Mendes Boy, ecological leader who defended the Amazonian floresta and that it was born in Xapuri small city of the Brazilian Amazonia next to the border with Bolivia and present place of encounter of ecologists and medical instructors of the eco-tourism. Acre has obtained the title of: “Land of the Green Tourism�?, since it has 95% of his territorial surface, than 153,000 km2s, covered more by the Amazonian Forest, with a great variety of fauna and flora.

The front door in this “green stroll�? is the State Capital: Branco river, that lived its splendor during the time sea bream on the rubber, extracted of the trees that occupied the zone totally where today it is located this city. Of the itinerary they comprise, among others, the municipality of Placid of I castrate and Vale do Juruá.

River Branco is the State Capital of Acre, received its name in tribute to Jose Maria gives Whistles Paranhos, the Barão do River Branco, that, with its diplomacy, was able to solve the dispute by the territory between Brazil and Bolivia annexed, it to Brazil in 1903, when he was Minister of Outer Subjects. It is cut by the Acre river and it shows the title of “Capital of the Nature�?, is the front door to cross the ways of the green tourism, is surrounded by seringais and brown. Protected zone of the great depredations and the contamination, River Branco is a very peculiar city, not only by the mixture of its population, beliefs and customs, but also by its architecture, modern and the old thing they are in the places, museums, palaces and parks.

Recommended visits

In River Branco:

It visits seringais (areas of extraction of the rubber) to observe the process of extraction of rubber and latex (to the outskirts of River Branco).
To the Nossa Cathedral Mrs. of Nazaré constructed in 1959 reflection of a Roman basilica.
Igrejinha de Ferro, chapel done of iron plates.
Palace of River Branco, with its Ionian columns.
House of Seringueiro, where is a reproduction of the house of Mendes Boy.
Museum gives Drunkard, with different objects done in rubber and some prehistoric fossils

In the state of Acre:

Placid of I castrate, is 97 kilometers of River Branco. Population located to borders of the Abunã river, owns wild fluvial beaches and an ecological park of 34 you have. and 113 species of tropical flora. **

You practice of senderismo, eco-tourism, tourism of photographic nature and safaris to a large extent of the state.
Stroll in canoe by the Abuna for the cor-of-pink observation of oilbags (fish of the family of the dolphins).
Valley of Juruá, valley of great natural beauties, the main city is Cruzeiro do Sul, located to 648 kilometers to the west of River Branco, almost in the border with Peru, is surrounded by igarapés, fluvial beaches of clear and fine sands and wild vegetation of the floresta. Strolls in boat and fish fluvial.

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