The Municipio Gran Sabana is one of the 11

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 ...

(

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s) that makes up the

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n state of Bolívar and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 28,450. The town of

Santa Elena de Uairén Santa Elena de Uairén () is a small Venezuelan city (29,795 inhabitants in 2006) in the state of Bolívar near the border with Brazil and Guyana. It was founded by Lucas Fernández Peña in 1923. The city's name originates from his first daughte ...

is the

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of the Gran Sabana Municipality.http://www.ine.gob.ve/secciones/division/Bolivar.zip

Demographics

The Gran Sabana Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 34,095 (up from 27,027 in 2000). This amounts to 2.2% of the state's population. The municipality's population density is . As of 2011, the Gran Sabana Municipality has amongst the highest proportion of indigenous people in the country, roughly 77.67%, the majority of which being Pemon.

Government

The mayor of the Gran Sabana Municipality is Emilio González, elected in the

2017 Venezuelan municipal elections The Venezuelan municipal elections of 2017 were held on 10 December 2017, to elect 335 mayors throughout Venezuela, as well as the governor of the state of Zulia. This was the first municipal election held since 2013, when elections were delayed f ...

. He replaced Manuel Vallés shortly after the elections. The municipality is divided into one (two if you count the Capital Gran Sabana section)

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(Ikabarú).

References

External links

gransabana-bolivar.gob.ve

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Demographics

Government

See also

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