A ' () is a

country subdivision Administrative division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constituent state, as well as many similar terms, are generic names for geographical areas into which a particular, ind ...

in several

Latin American Latin Americans ( es, Latinoamericanos; pt, Latino-americanos; ) are the citizens of Latin American countries (or people with cultural, ancestral or national origins in Latin America). Latin American countries and their diasporas are multi-eth ...

countries, mostly as top-level subnational divisions (except in Argentina). It is usually simply translated as "

department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

Current use

Ten countries currently have '.

Past use

Mexico in the 1830s was divided into 24 ', which were first-level divisions. It was during an attempt to centralize the government. Types of administrative division {{Geo-term-stub pt:Departamento