Page "Porto Velho" Paragraph 3

Officially founded on October 2, 1914, Porto Velho was founded by pioneers around 1907, during the construction of the Madeira-Mamoré railroad.

After the railroad was completed, the local population was about one thousand inhabitants ; its buildings were chiefly the railway's installations and the wooden houses of the Caribbean ( mainly Barbadian ) workers-hence the name of the town's largest district by then, " Barbados Town ", nowadays called the " Alto do Bode ".