Cruzeiro do Sul
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Key facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- North
- State
- Acre
- Founded
- September 12, 1904
- Mayor
- Ilderlei Cordeiro ( MDB )
- Total
- 7,924.943 km (3,059.838 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 182 m (597 ft)
- Density
- 8.94/km (23.2/sq mi)
- Demonym
- cruzeirense
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( ACT )
- Cep postal code
- 69980-000
- Area code
- +55 68
- Hdi 2010
- 0.664 – medium
- Website
- cruzeirodosul .ac .gov .br
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- border city
- Named after
- Crux
- Demonym
- cruzeirense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Acre
- Population
- 66603
- Area
- 7924.943
- Elevation
- 182
- Shares border with
- Ipixuna
- Official website
- www.cruzeirodosul.ac.gov.br
- Image
- Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Glória.jpg
- Dialing code
- 68
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- postal code
- 69.980-000
- Commons category
- Cruzeiro do Sul (Acre)
- electorate
- 57177
- Human Development Index
- 0.664
- inception
- 1904-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Cruzeiro do Sul ( Portuguese pronunciation: [kɾuˈzejɾu du ˈsuw], Southern Cross) is a municipality located on the Juruá river in the west of the Brazilian state of Acre. It is the second-largest city in Acre.
It is bordered to the north by the state of Amazonas, to the south by Peru, to the east by the municipality of Porto Walter, to the west by the municipality of Rodrigues Alves, to the northwest by the municipality of Tarauacá, and to the northwest by the municipality of Mâncio Lima.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cruzeiro do Sul” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.