Late afternoon on the River Acre, View of the Acre River, which surrounds Rio White. To know more about the land of Chico Mendes is impossible not to notice that this is a special place, endowed strong symbolism: It represents a piece of Brazil that part of the tours is not even on the cards postcards. It is far from major urban centers, the poles industrial and idyllic beaches of our extensive coast. The forests and rivers of Acre represent that immense Brazil unknown, that most of us go through life without come to know. But the truth is that were it not for hundreds and hundreds of places like this, Brazil would not be Continental is the country that, nor have the resources and wealth that there are in our soils and waters.