Capixaba, Acre, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
During the first migrations in the beginning of the 20th century, a family from Espírito Santo arrived with a manual sawmill, known as Pica-Pau in the then Seringal Gavião, at km 77 of Rio Branco. This family's house was named by the neighbors of Serraria do Capixaba. In a plebiscite held to choose a new name, Vila Capixaba or Vila Santo Antônio (the city's patron saint), the community voted by placing in the ballot box a corn kernel who wanted the name Vila Santo Antônio, and a bean kernel who preferred Vila Capixaba. After counting the beans, at the end of the vote, the beans won. Today the official name is the Municipality of Capixaba. The municipality of Capixaba was created on February 28, 1992 by Law 1096, in view of the development of the neighboring municipal areas of Rio Branco and Xapuri. Elevated to the category of municipality and district with the name of Capixaba, in 1992.

Local Offices
Serviços Extrajudiciais de Capixaba Endereço: Av. Governador Edmundo Pinto, 1030 - Centro Telephone: (68)3234-1232 Email: cartoriocapixaba@gmail.com
 * (Registration of interdictions and guardianships; title protests; property registration; registration of deeds, documents and legal entities; civil registry of natural persons)

Other Institutions

 * Biblioteca Pública Municipal de Capixaba Praça Vicente Lopes, s/n - Centro
 * Prefeitura Municipal de Capixaba Rua Principal, 01 - Centro CEP: 69.922-000 Telephone: (68) 3234-1038