Acre

The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems. It is defined as the area of 1 chain (22 yards) by 1 furlong (220 yards), which is exactly equal to 1640 of a square mile, 43,560 square feet, approximately 4,047 m2, or about 40% of a hectare.

The acre is commonly used in Antigua and BarbudaAustralia, American Samoa,The Bahamas,Belize, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands,Canada,Dominica, the Falkland Islands,Grenada,Ghana, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands,India, Ireland, Jamaica,Montserrat,Myanmar, Pakistan, Samoa,St. Lucia,St. Helena,St. Kitts and Nevis,St. Vincent and the Grenadines,Turks and Caicos, the United Kingdom, the United States and the US Virgin Islands.

The international symbol of the acre is ac. The most commonly used acre today is the international acre. In the United States both the international acre and the slightly different US survey acre are in use. The most common use of the acre is to measure tracts of land. One international acre is defined as exactly 4,046.8564224 square metres.

Acre River

The Acre River (called Aquiry in the local Iñapari language; locally, Rio Acre) is a 680 kilometres (420 mi) long river in central South America. The river is born in Peru, and runs North-Eastwards, forming part of the border between Bolivia and Brazil. It runs through the Brazilian states of Acre and Amazonas before eventually running into the Purus River at Boca do Acre. It boards on the Bolivian frontier and flows Easter and North to a junction with the Purus at 8° 45' South latitude. The name is also applied to a district situated on the same river and on the former boundary line of 1867, between Bolivia and Brazil. This region's area is estimated at about 60,000 square miles (160,000 km2).

It is navigable from the mouth until the Xapuri River (480 kilometres (300 mi)), even farther in the wet season from January until May. The river was an important transportation artery at the end of the 19th Century due to newly discovered rubber tree forests.

History

The region was settled by Peruvians between 1870 and 1878, but was invaded by Brazilian rubber collectors during the next decade (during the 'rubber boom') and became tributary to the rubber markets of Iquitos, Manaus and Pará. In 1899, the Bolivian government established a custom-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 July 1899 the "Acreanos" declared their independence and set up a republic of their own, but in the following 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 Petropolis on November 17, 1903, through the purchase by Brazil of the rubber-producing territory, south to about the ninth parallel.

Acre (disambiguation)

An acre is a unit of measurement used for areas of land.

Acre may also refer to:

Places

  • Acre, Israel, the English name for the ancient city called Akko in Hebrew and Akka in Arabic
  • Acre, Lancashire, a village in Lancashire, England
  • Acre (state), a Brazilian state
  • Acre River, running through Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil
  • Republic of Acre, a series of separatist governments in then Bolivia's Acre region between 1899 and 1903
  • Sanjak of Acre, an administrative district of Ottoman Eyalet of Damascus, between 1800 and 1948
  • Other uses

  • Acre (surname)
  • Acre-class destroyer, a class of six destroyers built for the Brazilian Navy and commissioned in the early 1950s
  • Acre (Freebase), a JavaScript application hosting environment for Freebase
  • ACRE, acronym for Action with Communities in Rural England
  • ACRE, acronym for the Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth project
  • Acre antshrike, an antbird
  • Acre tody-tyrant, a flycatcher bird
  • Sedum acre, commonly known as the Goldmoss Stonecrop, Goldmoss Sedum, Biting Stonecrop, Wallpepper, and Welcome home husband though never so drunk, a perennial plant native to Europe, but also naturalised in North America
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