The Atabapo Municipality ( es, Municipio Atabapo) is one of the seven

municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

( municipios) that makes up the southern

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

n state of Amazonas and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 9,169. The town of

San Fernando de Atabapo San Fernando de Atabapo is a town in southern Venezuela on the border with Colombia. It was the capital city of the Amazonas state until the early 1900s. The population in 1997 was approximately 5,000. In the early twentieth century it was ru ...

is the municipal seat of the Atabapo Municipality.http://www.ocei.gov.ve/secciones/division/Amazonas.zip

Demographics

The Atabapo Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 10,625 (up from 8,475 in 2000). This amounts to 7.4% of the state's population. The municipality's population density is . Tepuy Yapacana Municipio Atabapo - Amazonas

Tepuy Yapacana Municipio Atabapo - Amazonas

Government

The mayor of the Atabapo Municipality is Nelsón Cayupare, elected on October 31, 2004, with 38% of the vote. He replaced Nepomuceno Patiño shortly after the elections. The municipality is divided into three

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...

es; Ucata, Yapacana, and Caname (previous to December 18, 1997, the Atabapo Municipality contained only a single parish).

References

External links

atabapo-amazonas.gob.ve
Municipalities of Amazonas (Venezuelan state) {{AmazonasVE-geo-stub