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ACRE, or AQUIRY

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 154 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACRE, or AQUIRY , a See also:river of See also:Brazil and See also:principal tributary of the Pur's, rising on the Bolivian frontier and flowing easterly and northerly to a junction with the Purus at 8° 45' S. See also:lat. The name is also applied to a See also:district situated on the same river and on the ,former (186.7) boundary See also:line between See also:Bolivia and Brazil. The region, which abounds in valuable See also:rubber forests, was settled by Bolivians between 1870 and 1878, but was invaded by Brazilian rubber collectors during the next See also:decade and became tributary to the rubber markets of Mangos and See also:Para. In 1899 the Bolivian See also:government established a See also:custom-See also:house at Puerto Alonso, on the Acre river, for the collection of export duties on rubber, which precipitated a conflict with the Brazilian settlers and finally brought about a boundary dispute between the two republics. In See also:July 1899 the Acreanos declared their See also:independence and set up a See also:republic of their. own, but in the following See also:March they were reduced to submission by Brazil. Various disorders followed until Brazil decided to occupy Puerto Alonso with a military force. The boundary dispute was finally settled at See also:Petropolis on the 17th of See also:November 1903 through the See also:purchase by Brazil of the rubber-producing territory See also:south to about the rrth parallel, estimated at more than 6o,000 sq. m.

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