The Bermúdez Municipality is one of the fifteen

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s) that makes up the eastern

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n state of

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and, according to a 2011 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 165,675. The city of

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for the Bermúdez Municipality.http://www.ocei.gov.ve/secciones/division/Sucre.zip The municipality was named for Venezuelan independence hero

José Francisco Bermúdez José Francisco Bermúdez (23 January 1782, Cariaco – 15 December 1831, Cumaná) was a Venezuelan revolutionary and military officer. A major lieutenant of Simón Bolívar, he fought in the Venezuelan War of Independence, reaching the rank o ...

History

It was somewhere on the

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, near Carúpano, where

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first set foot on the American continent for the only time, during his third voyage (in all his other trips he only explored the

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islands).

Demographics

The Bermúdez Municipality, according to a 2011 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 165,675 (up from 128,123 in 2000). This amounts to 16.4% of the state's population.http://www.ocei.gov.ve/sintesisestadistica/estados/sucre/cuadros/Poblacion5.xls The municipality's population density is .

Government

The municipality is divided into five

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es; Bolívar, Macarapana, Santa Catalina, Santa Rosa, and Santa Teresa. The elected office of mayor (alcalde) was established in 1990; however, the initial election was disputed. Carlos Monasterio was installed in 1990 and had served eighteen months when the court (Supreme Electoral Council) removed him, and established Juan Marquez Albornoz as the actual winner of the election.

Notable natives

Famous ''Carupaneros'' include: *

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, former

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. *Jictzad Viña,

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2005. *

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, president of

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, one of Venezuela's largest television networks. * Jesús Flores,

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