Assis Brasil


Assis Brasil is a municipality located in the south of the Brazilian state of Acre. Its population is 5351 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.

Name

The municipality was named after Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil, a diplomat who was involved in the transference of Acre from Bolivian to Brazilian control after the Acre War.

Towns and villages