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Assis Brasil () is a
municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...
located in the south of the
Brazilian state The federative units of Brazil () are subnational entities with a certain degree of autonomy (self-government, self-regulation, and self-collection) and endowed with their own government and constitution, which together form the Federative Repu ...
of
Acre The acre ( ) is a Unit of measurement, unit of land area used in the Imperial units, British imperial and the United States customary units#Area, United States customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one Chain (unit), ch ...
. Its population is 7,534 (2020 est) and its area is . The municipality contains part of the Rio Acre Ecological Station. It also contains part of the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, a sustainable use environmental unit created in 1990. It is located near the
Brazil–Peru Integration Bridge The Brazil-Peru Integration Bridge (Portuguese: Ponte da Integração Brasil–Peru, Spanish: ''Puente de la Integración Brasil-Perú)'' is a bridge that crosses the Acre River at a point which forms the Brazil-Peru border, international border ...
.


Name

The municipality was named after Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil, a diplomat who was involved in the transference of
Acre The acre ( ) is a Unit of measurement, unit of land area used in the Imperial units, British imperial and the United States customary units#Area, United States customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one Chain (unit), ch ...
from Bolivian to Brazilian control after the
Acre War The Acre War, known in Brazil as Acrean Revolution () and in Spanish as ("War of the Acre") was a border conflict between Bolivia and Brazil over the Acre Region, which was rich in rubber and gold deposits. The conflict had two phases between ...
.


Towns and villages

* Abismo *Assis Brasil - capital *
Maloca A maloca is an ancestral long house built by Indigenous people of the Amazon, notably in Colombia and Brazil. Each community has a single maloca with its distinct characteristics. Several families with patrilineal or matrilineal relations li ...
*Reserva Extrema * São Francisco, Acre * Senegal, Acre * Seringal Paraguacu


References

Municipalities in Acre (state) {{AcreBR-geo-stub