The Ezequiel Zamora Municipality is one of the 12
municipalities
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(
municipio
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s) that makes up the
Venezuela
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n state of
Barinas and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 53,580. The town of
Santa Bárbara is the
shire town
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of the Ezequiel Zamora Municipality.
[http://www.ine.gob.ve/secciones/division/Barinas.zip ] The municipality is named for the 19th century Venezuelan soldier
Ezequiel Zamora.
Demographics
The Ezequiel Zamora Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 51,436 (up from 43,367 in 2000). This amounts to 6.8% of the state's population. The municipality's population density is .
Government
The mayor of the Ezequiel Zamora Municipality is Levid Emilio Méndez, re-elected on October 31, 2004, with 38% of the vote.
The municipality is divided into four
parish
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es; Santa Bárbara, José Ignacio del Pumar, Pedro Briceño Méndez, and Ramón Ignacio Méndez.
References
External links
ezequielzamora-barinas.gob.ve
Municipalities of Barinas (state)
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