Marechal Thaumaturgo, Acre, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
The city's name is a tribute to the military man Gregório Thaumaturgo de Azevedo, who founded the city of Cruzeiro do Sul and was mayor of Alto Juruá after the annexation of Acre to Brazil, with the Treaty of Petrópolis in 1903.

The first inhabitants of what would one day become the municipality of Marechal Thaumaturgo were the Arara Shawãdawa, a Pano (or Nawa ) people, who currently inhabit the Jaminawa-Arara do Rio Bagé Indigenous Land, located within the limits of the municipality. They also inhabit the Arara do Igarapé Humaitá Indigenous Land, located in the neighboring municipality of Porto Walter.

The municipality of Marechal Thaumaturgo originated from Seringal Minas Gerais [ citation needed ], in lands occupied by Brazilian rubber tappers, invaders of Peruvian lands from an expansionist policy financed by the Government of Amazonas.

With the formalization of the Treaty of Petrópolis between Brazil and Bolivia, the extension of Acre and, therefore, from Brazil to the headwaters of the Purus River was established. Thus, Brazilian territory entered lands considered to belong to Peru up to the source of the Purus River.

Thus, the Treaty of Petrópolis, signed between Bolivia and Brazil, also began to define the limits with Peru, which resulted in a series of conflicts between Peru and Brazilian rubber tappers in 1904.

This resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro (1909), which defined new boundaries between Brazil and Peru, and where approximately 40,000 km 2 of land in the upper Purus River basin were recognized as belonging to Peru. However, in the upper Juruá river valley, the Brazilian government purchased the lands previously inhabited by Brazilian rubber tappers, consolidating the new frontiers with the signing of the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro, in 1909, between Brazil and Peru.

Only on April 28, 1992 the municipality of Marechal Thaumaturgo was created, from a dismemberment of the municipality of Cruzeiro do Sul.Founded on April 28, 1992. The District was created with the name of Thaumaturgo (former locality of Zos do Amônia), in 1905. Elevated to the category of municipality with the name of Marechal Thaumaturgo, in 1963. Elevated again to the category of municipality with the name of Marechal Thaumaturgo, in 1992.

Former Name:
 * Thamaturgo

Local Offices

 * Serventia de Registro Civil das Pessoas Naturais da Comarca de Marechal Thaumaturgo Rua Luiz Martins, 298E - Centro Telephone: (68)3325-1004 Email: fabio-cic@hotmail.com
 * (Functions: Notes; Civil Registry of Natural Persons)

Other Institutions

 * Biblioteca Pública Municipal Professora Lacyr Freitas Duvale Rua 5 de novembro, 47 - Centro Telephone: (68) 3325-1158
 * Prefeitura Municipal de Marechal Thaumaturgo Telephone: (43) 3541-1122 Website: www.marechalthaumaturgo.ac.gov.br/