The Simón Rodríguez Municipality is one of the 21
municipalities
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
(
municipios) that makes up the eastern
Venezuela
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n state of
Anzoátegui
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and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 182,474. The town of
El Tigre is the
shire town
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of the Simón Rodríguez Municipality.
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History
El Tigre was founded on February 23, 1933. The city started when oil companies found oil in El Tigre and established their offices in Campo Oficina.
Demographics
The Simón Rodríguez Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 183,185 (up from 155,178 in 2000). This amounts to 12.4% of the state's population. The municipality's population density is .
Government
The mayor of the Simón Rodríguez Municipality is Carlos Hernández, elected on November 23, 2008, with 49% of the vote.
He replaced Ernesto José Paraqueima Luiggi shortly after the elections. The municipality is divided into two
parish
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es; Edmundo Barrios and Miguel Otero Silva.
See also
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El Tigre
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Anzoátegui
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Municipalities of Venezuela
References
External links
simonrodriguez-anzoategui.gob.ve
Municipalities of Anzoategui
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