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| | Cidade Mais Limpa do Brasil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | The small city of Acari, in the eastern Serído region of Rio Grande do Norte has a population of 11.209 inhabitants (IBGE, 2000), with 8,865 inhabitants residing in the city and 2,344, residing in the rural areas. |
 | | Original inhabited (primitive) by Cariris Indians, the municipality of Acari was founded, as a small village, by Sargento-mor Manuel Esteves de Andrade, arriving there from Serra do Saco. |
 | | Basically translated, this states: "Every couple is obligated to clean in front of their houses in the village, especially for the four festas each year, with a fine each time they fail to do this cleaning, of two hundred reis for the expenses of the Câmara" (City government). |
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