One Million Red Ribbons

Funnelling a little more the research, we will see as it was the povoamento in the territorial area where today it is special the Brazilian North in the state of Rondnia. The povoamento of Rondnia is marked by the cycle of the rubber that left as inheritances the construction of the railroad Wood, and the sprouting of the city of Porto Velho in the initial art of the railroad and the telegraphic line of Rondon Marshal, who later would be responsible for the sprouting of other cities in the interior of the state and special Cacoal. With the incentive of the Federal government to colonize the north of the country and mainly to extract the rubber that was an important raw material for World War II, the people that they had come to extract the rubber had been called Soldiers of the Rubber. with them was born the Federal Territory of the Guapor. That in 1956 it would call Federal Territory of Rondnia and later State of Rondnia. From the opening of BR 364 together with the propaganda that in the region the lands were fertile and easy to obtain, they had stimulated the coming of many Brazilians for the region who if had concentrated in the edges of BR 364, and the INCRA came to the region to distribute lands. One of these towns I had appeared throughout the BR I would be later Cacoal, being installed there the PIC-Gy-Paran, that received as many migrantes that in 1977 the category of City was raised, which it did not stop to grow and currently it gains aspect of modern city. Following its growth it comes agriculture, especially the coffee that of a Cacoal the nickname of ' ' Capital of the Caf' ' activity this that passed to be cultivated in the region from the second half of the decade of 60, brought for Clodoaldo Nunes de Almeida. .