Acre is a state in the North of Brazil, on the border with Peru. Acre is the greenest state of Brazil, with over 50% of its territory protected somehow. Important figures on the national environmentalist movement, such as Chico Mendes and Marina Silva, come from here.

Map of Acre (Brazil)

• -9.978056-67.8116671 Rio Branco — the capital and the biggest city of the state is a pleasant town with interesting architecture, usually inspired by forest or native culture elements
• -11.01-68.7477782 Brasiléia and Epitaciolândia — across the Xapuri River from the Bolivian city of Cobija
• -7.630833-72.673 Cruzeiro do Sul — most important tourist and economic center in the interior of Acre, it has many buildings and monuments that symbolize and preserve the history of Acre
• -8.163889-70.3538894 Feijó — on the right bank of the Envira River , which is the main means of transporting production for riverside dwellers
• -10.275833-67.155 Plácido de Castro — on the left bank of the Abunã River, across from the Bolivian town of Puerto Evo Morales
• -9.065833-68.6569446 Sena Madureira — it has the oldest church in Acre, built in 1910
• -8.160833-70.7658337 Tarauacá — known as "the land of the giant pineapple", where the fruit weighs around 15 kg
• -10.651944-68.5038898 Xapuri — it draws visitors to its monuments to the Acre War and the house of Chico Mendes, and it has an eco-lodge at the Seringal Waterfall

• -8.36-73.331 Serra do Divisor — in the extreme west of the state, most of its territory is covered by the Amazon rainforest. The main rivers are the Juruá and the Moa, on the banks of which the Nukini Indians live. Authorization from Ibama is required for visitation.
• -10.510556-69.7991672 Chico Mendes Environmental Park — with an important area covered by forest, it preserves the local flora and fauna, in the same place where the Itucumã rubber plantation was located, 10 km from Rio Branco.

Acre lives in Brazilian popular culture as "the state that doesn't exist", as in a conspiratory theory. Nothing could be more unfair, given this was the one state in the federation that went through an armed struggle to become part of the country.

Acre is inhabited by various indigenous groups of the Panoan language family, including Kashinawa, Jaminawa and Xanenawa. There are also three groups of other language families, Madiha (Kulina) of the Arawan family as well as Yine (Manchineri) and Ashaninka (Kampa) of the Arawakan family.

There are only 200 km of state highways, mostly near Rio Branco.

In Rio Branco, visit the Palácio Rio Branco and Museu da Borracha museums to learn about the region's history.

Serra do Divisor has a range of undeveloped terrains and wildlife. In one month, ecologists counted: 43 large mammal species, more than 100 amphibian and 30 reptile species, 485 bird species, 55 species of bats, and 29 spider families.

Acre cuisine mixes Northeastern, Pará, Bolivian, indigenous and Arab cuisine. From this mixture came duck in tucupi, tacacá, sun-dried meat with baião de dois, fish stew, tapioca, spicy chicken and cigars. Exotic fruits yield excellent juices and desserts: graviola, cajá, cajarana, cupuaçu, etc. From the forest come peach palm, Brazil nut, guarana, buriti and açaí.

Acre state is one of the biggest producers of açaí in Brazil. This purple juice extracted from the fruit of a palm tree gained international fame as a superfood, consumed in form of a frozen cream to which fruits or nuts are added. However, the local way to consume it is to mix the fresh unsweetened juice to a bit of manioc flour (for crunchiness) and then add sugar, condensed milk and/or powdered milk.

Another local delicacy is tacacá, a broth made with manioc water and jambu, a leaf that causes an effect between hotness and light numbness of the mouth. When asked how much goma you want, start with "little" because this goey paste is an acquired taste, but don't skip it as it dissolves into the broth, giving it a nice thickness. It is served in a bowl, and you are supposed to drink directly from it, Japanese-style.