The Montalbán Municipality is one of the 14

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(

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s) that makes up the

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n state of

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and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 24,908. The town of Montalbán is the

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of the Montalbán Municipality.http://www.ine.gob.ve/secciones/division/Carabobo.zip

Demographics

The Montalbán Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 23,712 (up from 20,559 in 2000). This amounts to 1.1% of the state's population. The municipality's population density is .

Government

The mayor of the Montalbán Municipality is Luis Sánchez, elected on November 23, 2008, with 44% of the vote. He replaced Tulio Salvatierra Salazar shortly after the elections. The municipality is divided into one

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(Montalbán).

References

Municipalities of Carabobo {{Carabobo-geo-stub