A municipal seat (Spanish: ; ) is the administrative center and

seat of government The seat of government is (as defined by ''Brewer's Politics'') "the building, complex of buildings or the city from which a government exercises its authority". In most countries, the nation’s capital is also seat of its government, thus that ...

of a municipality or civil parish, with other villages or towns subordinated. The term is used in Brazil,

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and Venezuela.

Other variations

In Ecuador the term used is ''canton seat''; in Argentina, ''department seat''.

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Other variations

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