Tarauacá, Acre, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
The region was inhabited by Cachinauás and Jaminauas Indians, on the banks of the Tarauacá and Murú Rivers. Tarauacá is an indigenous name and means "rivers of sticks or trunks". Around 1877, people from the Northeast emigrated to form and exploit native rubber plantations. In 1899 a group of emigrants arrived at the confluence of the Murú and Tarauacá rivers, founding the Seringal Foz do Murú, and from there, the starting point for exploration in the upper rivers. Among the Northeasterners who arrived there, the following stand out: José João and Antonio Marques de Albuquerque, Patronilo de Albuquerque, Joaquim Gonçalves de Freitas, Manoel Pereira Cidade, Francisco de Oliveira, João Lopes Ibiapina, Joaquim, Antonio and Alexandre Teixeira de Souza, Antonio Ferreira Lima Manoel Paixão de Albuquerque, Ernesto Nunes Serra and Francisco Caetano de Lima. With the Treaty of Petrópolis on November 17, 1903, the lands in the region passed to the Union. In 1904, with the first territorial-administrative division of Acre, the lands passed to the Department of Alto Juruá. On January 1, 1907, Foz do Murú was elevated to the category of village, with the name of Seabra. In 1912 it was dismembered, creating the Department of Tarauacá, created by Decree No. 9831, and installed on April 19, 1913. Its first Mayor was Colonel Antonio Nunes de Alencar. In the same Decree, the Municipality of the same name was created, which was installed on April 24, 1913. Foz do Murú is elevated to the category of Village, with the name of Seabra. In 1912 it was dismembered, creating the Department of Tarauacá, created by Decree No. 9831, and installed on April 19, 1913. Its first Mayor was Colonel Antonio Nunes de Alencar. In the same Decree, the Municipality of the same name was created, which was installed on April 24, 1913. Foz do Murú is elevated to the category of Village, with the name of Seabra. In 1912 it was dismembered, creating the Department of Tarauacá, created by Decree No. 9831, and installed on April 19, 1913. Its first Mayor was Colonel Antonio Nunes de Alencar. In the same Decree, the Municipality of the same name was created, which was installed on April 24, 1913.

Elevated to the category of village with the name of Seabra, in 1907. In 1920, it elevated the Seabra headquarters to the category of city. In administrative division referring to the year 1933, the municipality is called Tarauacá.

Former Name:
 * Seabra

Local Offices

 * Serventias Extrajudiciais da Comarca de Tarauacá Rua Epaminondas Jacome, 908 - Bairro Centro Telephone: (68) 3462-2635 Email: cartoriotk@gmail.com
 * (Title Protests; Registry of Interdictions and Guardianships; Registry of Real Estate; Registry of Deeds, Documents, and Civil Affairs of Legal Entities; Notes; Civil Registry of Natural Persons)

Other Institutions

 * Biblioteca Pública Estadual Ancelmo Marinho Lessa Avenida Coronel Juvêncio de Menezes, 301 - Centro Telephone: (68) 3462-2029 Email: prof_evandro_dias@hotmail.com
 * Prefeitura de Tarauaca Endereço: Av. Antônio Frota, Tarauacá - AC, CEP: 69970-000 Telephone: +55 (68) 3462-2376 Email: contato@tarauaca.ac.gov.br Website: http://tarauaca.ac.gov.br/ Blog: assecomtk.blogspot.com.br