Xapuri
Sign in to saveXapuri () 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.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Xapuri
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- IgrejadeSãoSebastião.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Church of Saint Sebastian.
- Settlement.image_flag
- Bandeira-xapuri.jpg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Brasao-xapuri.jpg
- Settlement.image_map
- Acre Municip Xapuri.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of municipality in Acre State
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Brazil
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Brazil
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- 25px Brazil
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- North
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- border|22px Acre
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- border city
- Demonym
- xapuriense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Acre
- Population
- 12366
- Area
- 5250.931
- Elevation
- 213
- Shares border with
- Capixaba
- Official website
- www.xapuri.ac.gov.br
- Image
- IgrejadeSãoSebastião.jpg
- Dialing code
- 68
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- postal code
- 69930-000
- Commons category
- Xapuri
- inception
- 1883-00-00
- Human Development Index
- 0.599
- twinned administrative body
- São Bernardo do Campo
- electorate
- 11612
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Encyclopedic overview
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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==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Xapuri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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