In the last decades of the 19th century, attracted by the extraction of latex, the pinnacle of the economy of the Amazon at the time, and fleeing from the drought in the Brazilian Northeast region, peoples from Ceara, Rio Grande do Norte and Paraíba states, arrived in Juruá and took up residence in the rubber, giving rise to the first villages.

Upon arrival in Brazil, many were attracted by the rubber, the main wealth of the time, and sought to engage the interior for agriculture and the cultivation of latex.

The population to be composed of various mixtures with strong traces of white northeastern Kulinaã with Indians, had also influenced by people from other regions, such as Turkish, Portuguese and others.

The place where it was built, was formerly the headquarters of Eiru large plantation, owned by Felipe Manoel da Cunha, rich seringalista Rio Jurua.

Before long, Philip Manuel da Cunha entered into understanding with the government and managed to be added in Article No.

76, September 8, 1894, in Rio Jurua created a municipality with its Term County Judicial Annex to Tefe, headquartered in San Felipe.

On the same day the first Superintendent Captain Lieutenant Thomas Bridges Medeiros installed Vila, who also had not been created.

Moses Coriolis Araújo, this request to change the name of the village of San Felipe to Joao Pessoa, giving as a result the Act No.

The rainfall index is about 2,300 millimeters per year, with a decrease in the quarter from June to August, when the municipality is more subject to "friagem" events, when polar air masses reach the region and lower the temperature, sometimes to values of 15 °C or less.

According to data from the National Institute of Meteorology (INMET), since 1974 the lowest temperature recorded at Eirunepé was 8.5 °C (47.3 °F) on June 1, 1988.