Sucre is one of the 11

municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

(

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s) that makes up the

Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...

n state of Bolívar and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 20,359. The town of Maripa is the

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of the Sucre Municipality.

Name

The municipality is one of several in Venezuela named " Sucre Municipality" in honour of Venezuelan independence hero

Antonio José de Sucre Antonio José de Sucre y Alcalá (; 3 February 1795 – 4 June 1830), known as the "Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho" (), was a Venezuelan general and politician who served as the president of Bolivia from 1825 to 1828. A close friend and associate ...

Demographics

The Sucre Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 27,218 (up from 20,108 in 2000). This amounts to 1.8% of the state's population. The municipality's population density is .

Government

The mayor of the Sucre Municipality is Juan Carlos Figarella Díaz, re-elected on October 31, 2004, with 47% of the vote. The municipality is divided into four (five if you count the Capital Sucre section)

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es; Aripao, Guarataro, Las Majadas, and Moitaco.

References

Municipalities of Bolívar (state) {{venezuela-geo-stub