The Cardenal Quintero Municipality is one of the 23

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s) that makes up the

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n state of Mérida and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 9,546. The town of

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is the

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of the Cardenal Quintero Municipality.http://www.ine.gob.ve/secciones/division/Merida.zip

Demographics

The Cardenal Quintero Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 9,546 (up from 8,049 in 2000). This amounts to 1.1% of the state's population. The municipality's population density is .

Government

The mayor of the Cardenal Quintero Municipality is Pedro Segundo Rivas Moreno, re-elected on October 31, 2004, with 89% of the vote. The municipality is divided into two

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; Capital Cardenal Quintero and Las Piedras.

References

Municipalities of Mérida (state) {{venezuela-geo-stub

Demographics

Government

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