Xapuri (Portuguese pronunciation: ) 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. Xapuri is at the point where the Xapuri River meets the Acre River. Its name is said to come from the Indigenous word Chapury, meaning "river meeting". Another explanation is that its name comes from the indigenous tribe of "Xapury" people. The town is about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) northwest of the BR-317 highway which leads from Rio Branco, 241 kilometres (150 mi) to the east, to Brasiléia, 74 kilometres (46 mi) to the west. It has broad streets and wooden houses. The area of the municipality is 5,347.468 square kilometres (2,064.669 sq mi). It is 12th largest in area in Acre. It is bounded by the municipality of Sena Madureira to the west, Rio Branco to the north, Capixaba to the east, Epitaciolândia to the south, and Brasiléia to the southwest. More information...
According to PR-model, xapuri.ac.gov.br is ranked 1,076,645th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 61,938th in Portuguese Wikipedia.
The website is placed before thecineflix.com and after newamsterdamfc.com in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
