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José Plácido De Castro
José Plácido de Castro (9 September 1873 – 11 August 1908) was a Brazilian soldier, surveyor, rubber producer and politician who led the armed revolt during the Acre War of 1902–3, when the Republic of Acre broke away from Bolivia. He was the president of the state of Acre just before and after it was purchased by Brazil. After the war he became extremely wealthy as a rubber producer, and made many enemies. He was assassinated in 1908. He is considered a hero of Brazil. Early years José Plácido de Castro was born on 9 September 1873 in São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul, São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul. His great grandfather had served in the Brazilian theater of the War of the Oranges, 1801 war between Spain and Portugal, in which the Missões territory was annexed to Rio Grande do Sul, and his grandfather had fought in the 1820s Cisplatine War between the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata and the Empire of Brazil. His father, captain Prudente da Fonseca Castro, fough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floriano Peixoto
Floriano Vieira Peixoto (; 30 April 1839 – 29 June 1895) was a Brazilian military and politician, a veteran of the Paraguayan War and several other conflicts, and the second president of Brazil. Born in (today a district of the city of Maceió in the state of Alagoas) and nicknamed the Iron Marshal (), he was the first Vice President of Brazil, vice president of Brazil to have succeeded the president mid-term. Election Floriano Peixoto was an army marshal (he was promoted to this rank in 1874) when 1891 Brazilian presidential election, elected vice president in February 1891, he gained notoriety throughout his life for his strong abolitionism, abolitionist, anti-racism, anti-racist, and anti-corruption stance. In November 1891, he rose to the presidency after the resignation of generalissimo Deodoro da Fonseca, the first president of Brazil. Floriano Peixoto came to the presidency in a difficult period of the new Brazilian Republic, which was in the midst of a general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio Branco, Acre
Rio Branco (, ''White River'') is a Brazilian Municipalities of Brazil, municipality, capital of the state of Acre (state), Acre. Located in the valley of the Acre River in northern Brazil, it is the most populous municipality in the States of Brazil, state, with 387,852 inhabitants, according to 2024 IBGE estimates, almost half the state population. Rio Branco was one of the History of Brazil#Rubber, first settlements to develop in the region, being the westernmost major settlement in the country and the 4th-oldest state capital city in North Region, Brazil, Northern Brazil, after Belém, Manaus and Macapá. In 1913, it became a county. In 1920, it became the capital of the territory of Acre, and in 1962, the state capital. It is the administrative center for the economic, political and cultural region. History The capital of the state of Acre (state), Acre developed from the Natural rubber, rubber plantation founded on December 28, 1882, by migrant settlers from the Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orthon River
The Orthon River is a river in the Pando Department of Bolivia and a tributary of river Beni. The river is named after explorer James Orton, who travelled the tributary around the 1870s. A territorial claim for Antonio de Vaca Diez was carved into a tree during a later expedition by Edwin Heath. Vaca Díez was an entrepreneur in the rubber industry who would later dominate the trade on the Orthon river. Like other rubber barons, Antonio used the exploited local indigenous population as his workforce. Díez became a business partner of Carlos Fermín Fitzcarrald sometime in the early 1890s. On February 1, 1897 The Orton Rubber Co. Ltd. was registered in London by Vaca Díez. After the death of Antonio and Fitzcarrald in a river accident on the Urubamba in July 1897: rubber baron Nícolas Suárez absorbed the territory into his estate. See also *List of rivers of Bolivia This is a list of rivers in Bolivia. By drainage basin This list is arranged by drainage basin, with resp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xapuri
Xapuri () is a municipality located in the southeast of the Brazilian state of Acre. It was the scene of an early bloodless victory during the war to make Acre independent of Bolivia. The town is known as the birthplace of the rubber tapper and environmentalist Chico Mendes and of the surgeon and professor Adib Jatene. Geography Xapuri is at the point where the Xapuri River meets the Acre River. Its name is said to come from the Indigenous word ''Chapury'', meaning "river meeting". Another explanation is that its name comes from the indigenous tribe of "Xapury" people. The town is about northwest of the BR-317 highway which leads from Rio Branco, to the east, to Brasiléia, to the west. It has broad streets and wooden houses. The area of the municipality is . It is 12th largest in area in Acre. It is bounded by the municipality of Sena Madureira to the west, Rio Branco to the north, Capixaba to the east, Epitaciolândia to the south, and Brasiléia to the southwes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porto Acre
Porto Acre (), originally called Puerto Alonso during bolivian rule, is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality located in the northeast of the States of Brazil, Brazilian state of Acre (state), Acre. The economy is mainly based on agriculture. As of 2020 the municipality had an estimated population of 18,824. Geography Porto Acre is in the eastern part of the state of Acre, to the north of the BR-364 highway and Rio Branco. The municipal seat is on the left (west) bank of the Acre River, a tributary of the Purus River that runs through the municipality from south to north. The town can be accessed by boat along the Acre River or by land along the AC-010 highway which runs north from Rio Branco for . The distance from Rio Branco as the crow flies is . Porto Acre is limited to the north by the state of Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas, to the west and south by the municipality of Bujari, to the south by Rio Branco and to the east by the municipality of Senador Guiomard. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Purus River
The Purus River (Portuguese: ''Rio Purus''; Spanish: ''Río Purús'') is a tributary of the Amazon River in South America. Its drainage basin is , and the mean annual discharge is . The river shares its name with the Alto Purús National Park and the Purús Province (and its conformed Purús District), one of the four provinces of Peru in the Ucayali Region. Geography The Purus River rises in Peru. It defines the boundary between Peru and Brazil in the centre of the state of Acre, then runs for a short distance along the boundary of the Santa Rosa do Purus National Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2001 after it is joined by the Santa Rosa River. The Purus then flows north east through Manoel Urbano It runs through a continuous forest at the bottom of the great depression, lying between the Madeira River, which skirts the edge of the Brazilian sandstone plateau, and the Ucayali River, which hugs the base of the Andes. In the state of Amazonas the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coronel Plácido De Castro Após A Revolução Acreana
Coronel may refer to: * Archaic and Spanish variant of colonel * Coronel, Chile, a port city in Chile * Battle of Coronel off the Chilean coast during World War I * The World War II German auxiliary cruiser HSK ''Coronel'', see German night fighter direction vessel ''Togo'' * Coronelism, a Brazilian political machine during the Old Republic (1889–1930) People * Antonio F. Coronel (1817–1894), mayor of Los Angeles from 1853 to 1854 * Christian Coronel (born 1980), professional basketball player in the Philippine Basketball Association * Dannes Coronel (1973–2020), Ecuadorian footballer * Emanuel Coronel (born 1997), Argentine professional footballer * Felipe Coronel (born 1978), aka Immortal Technique, a Peruvian American rapper and political activist * Gregorio Nuñez Coronel (~1548 ~ 1620), Portuguese Augustinian theologian, writer, and preacher * Jorge Icaza Coronel (1906–1978), writer from Ecuador * Juan Coronel (1569–1651), Spanish Franciscan missionary * Luis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Manuel Pando
José Manuel Inocencio Pando Solares (27 December 1849 – 17 June 1917) was a Bolivian explorer, military officer, and politician who served as the 25th president of Bolivia from 1899 to 1904. He was a member of the Liberal Party. He fought the so-called Acre War with Brazil, which led to Bolivia's loss of the Acre territories. Early life Youth and studies Pando was born in the town of Luribay on 27 December 1848. His parents were Manuel Pando and Petrona Solares. He studied at the ''Colegio Seminario de La Paz'' and continued his studies at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) where he studied medicine, but only reached the sixth year before he abandoned it for a career in politics. At the age of twenty-three, Pando fought alongside the people of La Paz to overthrow the government of Mariano Melgarejo on 15 January 1871, after which he was incorporated into the Bolivian Army. Military career After overthrowing Melgarejo, Bolivian President Agustín Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pará
Pará () is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest are the borders of Guyana and Suriname, to the northeast of Pará is the Atlantic Ocean. The capital and largest city is Belém, which is located at the Marajó bay, near the estuary of the Amazon river. The state, which is home to 4.1% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for just 2.2% of the Brazilian GDP. Pará is the most populous state of the North Region, Brazil, North Region, with a population of over 8.6 million, being the ninth-most populous state in Brazil. It is the second-largest state of Brazil in area, at , second only to Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas upriver. Its most famous icons are the Amazon River and the Amazon rainforest. Pará produces Natural rubber, rubber ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazonas (Brazilian State)
Amazonas () is a federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in the North Region, Brazil, North Region in the north-western corner of the country. It is the Federative units of Brazil#List, largest Brazilian state by area and the list of the largest country subdivisions by area, ninth-largest country subdivision in the world with an area of 1,570,745.7 square kilometers. It is the largest country subdivision in South America, being greater than the areas of Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay combined. Neighbouring states are (from the north clockwise) Roraima, Pará, Mato Grosso, Rondônia, and Acre (state), Acre. It also borders the nations of Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. This includes the departments of Colombia, Departments of Amazonas (Colombian department), Amazonas, Vaupés Department, Vaupés and Guainía Department, Guainía in Colombia, as well as the Amazonas State, Venezuela, Amazonas state in Venezuela, and the Loreto Region in Peru. Amazonas is named after the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvério José Néri
Silvério José Nery (Neri) (Coari, Silvério José Nery; 8 October 1858 – 23 June 1934) was a Brazilian soldier and politician who was a federal deputy from 1897 to 1899, governor of the state of Amazonas from 1900 to 1903 and a senator from 1904 to 1930. Early years His father was Silvério Nery and his mother was Maria Antony Nery. One of his brothers, Antônio Constantino Nery, was senator from 1901 to 1904 and then succeeded him as governor of Amazonas. Another brother, Raimundo Constantino Nery, was a federal deputy from 1903 to 1905. Silvério José Nery completed his secondary education at the Diocesan Seminary of Manaus, then attended the Praia Vermelha Military Academy in Rio de Janeiro, where he qualified as a surveyor. He returned to Manaus, and soon after joined the Liberal Party and retired from the army. He married Maria Maquiné da Silva, with whom he had six children (including Mario José Nery, Silverio José Nery, Lydia Nery (Cabral), Julio José da Silva Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
