Placido de Castro

Placido de Castro is a municipality positioned inside the east of the Brazilian country of Acre at the border with Bolivia. In the early 20th century the vicinity of the prevailing municipality become an area wherein fugitives from the regulation took safe haven. Jose Placido de Castro, who changed into prefect of the Alto Acre branch in 1906-07, advocated the need for a settlement to stabilise the scenario. In 1922 a buying and selling publish become mounted, serving extractors of nuts and rubber in the Abuna River basin. You can come here and explore this place.

The post become in a rubber tappers' settlement named Pacatuba on the Sao Gabriel rubber property, which changed into soon renamed after Placido de Castro, a hero of the Acre War. The Placido de Castro District is shown as a part of the Rio Branco municipality in the divisions of 31 December 1936 and 1 July 1960. The city did no longer broaden until the 1940s and 1950s with the outlet of the prevailing avenue that links the metropolis of Rio Branco to the cities of Quinari Senador Guiomard and Placido de Castro. The municipality of Placido de Castro become created on 10 March 1963.