Porto Acre, Acre, Brazil Genealogy

Guide to Municipality of Porto Acre ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, church records, parish registers, and civil registration.

History
Porto Acre was founded on January 3, 1899 as a city in the Republic of Bolivia, with the name of Puerto Alonso - the occupation of the region by Bolivians and Northeastern migrants to work in rubber extraction dates from this century. On January 24, 1903, Brazil definitively retakes the region, after a series of conflicts involving the question of Acre.

In territorial divisions dating from 1936 and 1937, the district of Porto Acre appears in the municipality of Rio Branco. Elevated to the category of municipality with the name of Porto Acre, in 1963, dismembered from Rio Branco. Installed on 01-01-1993.

Former Names:
 * Puerto Alonso
 * Cidade do Acre
 * Distrito de Porto Acre (pertencente a Rio Branco)

Local Offices

 * Serventia Extrajudicial da Comarca de Porto Acre Rodovia AC 10 km 57 n° 1196 - Bairro Centro Telephone: (68) 3233-1177 Email: cartorioportoacre@bol.com.br
 * (Property registry; registration of titles, documents and legal entities; civil registry of natural persons; notes; title disputes)

Cemeteries

 * Cemitério São João Batista

Other Institutions

 * Biblioteca Pública Estadual Luiz Galvez Rodrigues de Árias Rodovia AC 10 KM57, 595 - Nova Porto Acre Telephone: (68) 3233-1058 Email:	janielenn@hotmail.com
 * Prefeitura de Porto Acre Rodovia AC - 10, KM 57 - Porto Acre Telephone:(68) 3223-1032 Email: gabinete@portoacre.ac.gov.br Website: portoacre.ac.gov.br/ Facebook: m.facebook.com/Prefeitura-de-Porto-Acre-383574688706997/ Twitter: twitter.com/login?redirect_after_login=%2Fhome