Bolívar Municipality, Táchira

Bolívar Municipality

Municipio Bolívar
Bolívar Municipality Municipio Bolívar
Municipality
	Flag Seal
	Location in Táchira
	Bolívar Municipality Location in Venezuela
	Coordinates: 7°49′N 72°27′W
Country	Venezuela
State	Táchira
Municipal seat	San Antonio del Táchira
Government
• Mayor	Juan Vicente Cañas Alviarez (MVR)
Area
• Total	198 km2 (76 sq mi)
Population (2007)
• Total	60,149
• Density	300/km2 (790/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−4 (VET)
Area code(s)	0276
Website	Official website

Bolívar Municipality is one of the 29 municipalities that makes up the western Venezuelan state of Táchira and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 60,149.[1] The town of San Antonio del Táchira is the shiretown of the Bolívar Municipality.[2]

Name

The municipality is one of several in Venezuela named "Bolívar Municipality" in honour of Venezuelan independence hero Simón Bolívar.

Demographics

The Bolívar Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 60,149 (up from 50,209 in 2000). This amounts to 5.1% of the state's population.[3] The municipality's population density is 294.85 inhabitants per square kilometre (763.7/sq mi).[4]

Government

The mayor of the Bolívar Municipality is Juan Vicente Cañas Alviarez, elected on October 31, 2004, with 48% of the vote.[5] He replaced Ramon Vivas shortly after the elections.[6] The municipality is divided into four parishes; Bolívar, Palotal, Juan Vicente Gómez, and Isaías Medina Angarita (parishes Juan Vicente Gómez and Isaías Medina Angarita were officially separated from the Bolívar parish on January 25, 1995).[2]

References

http://www.ocei.gov.ve/sintesisestadistica/estados/tachira/cuadros/Poblacion6.xls%5B%5D
http://www.ocei.gov.ve/secciones/division/Tachira.zip%5B%5D
http://www.ocei.gov.ve/sintesisestadistica/estados/tachira/cuadros/Poblacion5.xls%5B%5D
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External links

bolivar-tachira.gob.ve Archived 2007-07-03 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
Information on the Bolívar Municipality Archived 2008-01-19 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
More information on the Bolívar Municipality (in Spanish)

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[1] ttp://www.ocei.gov.ve/sintesisestadistica/estados/tachira/cuadros/Poblacion6.xls%5B%5D

[autogenerated1-2] ttp://www.ocei.gov.ve/secciones/division/Tachira.zip%5B%5D

[3] ttp://www.ocei.gov.ve/sintesisestadistica/estados/tachira/cuadros/Poblacion5.xls%5B%5D

[4] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-10-31. Retrieved 2008-03-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[5] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2018-10-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[6] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-10-02. Retrieved 2008-03-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)