Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
In 1882, the steamer went up the Acre River and disembarked the Leite brothers at the Bagaço rubber plantation. Neutel Maia decides to stay a few miles uphill and on December 28 he founds Seringal Empreza, around the river where Gameleira is located. Then the same steamer still leaves Manuel Damasceno Girão at the mouth of the Xapuri, where he founded the Xapuri rubber plantation. At this moment of expansion of rubber extraction, when Acre was still considered a Bolivian territory, the Seringal Empresa, on the route between Porto Acre and Xapuri, a dynamic nucleus of economic activity that gave the logic to the invasion of the forest, became the nucleus of a trading post. At the same time, on the border bank of the same river Acre, a new center was formed, giving rise to a small, free commercial borough, with the name of Empresa Nova or simply Empresa, while the primitive one became known as Empresa Velha. . In 1904 the current municipality of Rio Branco becomes the seat of the Department of Alto Acre. "Exceptionally, the headquarters of the Alto Acre City Hall was located in Empresa Nova, which has since been called Vila Rio Branco, comprising, then, the two neighborhoods on the same side, connected by an avenue project. Since the establishment of the administrative headquarters of the territory in 1903, when it was then called Vila Rio Branco, until 1912, when the name of the future municipality was definitively established, its name oscillated between a tribute to the Baron of Rio Branco and Penápolis, in honor of President Afonso Pena. In 1912, by Federal Decree n.º 9,831, of October 23, becomes a city with the name of Rio Branco. The settlement of the Rio Branco region took place in the early 19th century, with the arrival of northeasterners. The development of the municipality took place during a large period given by the Rubber Cycle.[8] At this time, there was still a miscegenation of the population, with traces of the Northeastern white with the Kulinaã Indians, and there was also the influence of people from other regions of the world, such as Turks, Portuguese, Lebanese and others.

Elevated to the category of village with the name of Volta da Empresa, in 1904. Elevated to the condition of city and municipal seat with the name of Rio Branco, in 1912.

Former Name:
 * Volta da Empresa

Local Offices

 * 1º Ofício do Registro de Imóveis da Comarca de Rio Branco Av. Ceará, nº 2563 Rio Branco - AC, 69900-300 Telephone: (068) 3227-5753 Email:cririobranco@gmail.com
 * 1º Tabelionato de Notas e 1º Ofício do Registro Civil das Pessoas Naturais e Postos Avançados da Comarca de Rio Branco Avenida Ceará, 1422 - Bairro Centro Telephone: (68) 3224-9112 Email: 1tabelionato.riobranco@gmail.com
 * (Functions: Notes; Civil Registry of Natural Persons)
 * 1º Tabelionato de Protesto de Títulos da Comarca de Rio Branco Avenida Ceará, 2939 Rio Branco - AC, 69918-084 Telephone: (068) 3223-1071 Website: primeiroprotestosrbr@oi.com.br
 * 2º Tabelionato de Notas e 2º Ofício de Registro Civil das Pessoas Naturais da Comarca de Rio Branco V. Chico Mendes, 452, Segundo Distrito Rio Branco - AC, 69901-365 Telephone: (068) 2106-3464 Email: segundotabnotasriobrancoacre@gmail.com
 * 2º Tabelionato de Protesto de Títulos da Comarca de Rio Branco Av. Ceará, 3806 Rio Branco - AC, 69907-000 Telephone:(068) 3302-0332 Email: 2tabriobranco@gmail.com
 * 3º Tabelionato de Notas e 3º Ofício do Registro Civil das Pessoas Naturais da Comarca de Rio Branco Rua Magé, Nº30 Rio Branco - AC, 69907-000 Telephone: (068) 3227-2382 Email: cartorio3notas_rb@yahoo.com.br
 * 3º Tabelionato de Notas e 3º Ofício do Registro Civil das Pessoas Naturais da Comarca de Rio Branco Rua Omar Sabino, 452 - Bairro 7 BEC Telephone: (68) 3227-2382 Email: 3cartorio.rb.ac@gmail.com
 * (Functions: Notes, Civil Registry of Natural Persons)
 * Ofício do Registro de Títulos e Documentos e das Pessoas Jurídicas da Comarca de Rio Branco Rua Fausto Robalo, 69 Rio Branco - AC, 69900-086 Telephone: (068) 3222-7117 Email: cartoriortdriobranco@oi.com.br

Cemeteries

 * Cemitério Cruz Milagrosa Estrada da Transacreana, Km 5 - Ramal Cruz Milagrosa Telephone: Não Tem Hours of Operation: Every day - 7 am to 5 pm
 * Cemitério Jardim da Saudade Estrada Irineu Serra, 250 - Bairro Tancredo Neves Rio Branco - AC CEP 69909-460 Telephone: (68) 3228-0904 / 3228-3414 Hours of Operation: Every day - 7 am to 5 pm Google Maps
 * Cemitério Morada da Paz Estrada para o Bairro Calafate, 2.965 Rio Branco - AC Telephone: (68) 3225-0560 Hours of Operation: Every day - 7 am to 5 pm Google Maps
 * Cemitério São Francisco Rua Luiz Gonzaga, S/N - Bairro São Francisco Rio Branco - AC CEP 69001-68 Telephone: Não tem Hours of Operation: Every day 7 am to 5 pm Google Maps
 * Cemitério São João Batista Rua Rio de Janeiro, 554 - Bairro Dom Giocondo Rio Branco - AC Telephone: 3223-5038 Hours of Operation: Every day - 7 am to 5 pm Google Maps

Other Institutions

 * Arquivo Geral do Estado do Acre Av. Epaminondas Jácome, nº 3047 - Centro - Rio Branco - AC - CEP. 69908-420 Telephone/Fax: (0**68) 3224-3835
 * Biblioteca Pública Estadual	Estadual Avenida Getúlio Vargas, 389 - Centro Telephone: (68) 3223-1210 / (68) 3223-6041 Email: helena.carloni@ac.gov.br
 * Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional - IPHAN Rua Rio Grande do Sul, 182 - Bairro: Dom Giocondo - CEP: 69900-324 Telephone/Fax: (68) 3227-9029 Email: iphan-ac@iphan.gov.br Website: portal.iphan.gov.br
 * Prefeitura de Rio Branco Rua Rui Barbosa, 285 – Bairro: Centro - CEP: 69.900-901 Telephone: (68) 3212-7040 Website: www.riobranco.ac.gov.br