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by road, or 80 kilometres (50 mi) as the crow flies, accessible to weekend tourists from the city via the AC-40 highway. It has an area of 1,945 square kilometres (751 sq mi), and is the 19th largest in area in Acre. The municipality is bounded to the north and northwest by the
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Bolivian village of Vila
Montevidéu had a free trade zone for imported goods that was much visited by Brazilians. The village was burned in a major fire in 2007 and was rebuilt on a nearby site with the new name of Vila Evo Morales. The name honours President
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District is shown as part of the Rio Branco municipality in the divisions of 31 December 1936 and 1 July 1960. The town did not develop until the 1940s and 1950s with the opening of the present road that links the city of
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The 2010 census gave the population as 17,209, of which 8,999 were men and 8,210 women. 12,384 were literate. 6,787 were Roman
Catholic and 5,134 were Evangelical Christians. The
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basin. The post was in a rubber tappers' settlement named
Pacatuba on the São Gabriel rubber estate, which was soon renamed after Plácido de Castro, a hero of the
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The surrounding area has several large, ancient earthworks termed "geoglifos" by regional archaeologists. An example is clearly visible in aerial photography at
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as of 2010 was 0.622. In 2015 there were 3,260 elementary school pupils and 776 secondary school pupils. Estimated population as of 2016 was 18,159.
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