The Tinaquillo Municipality (was known as Falcón Municipality before 2011) is one of the nine
municipalities
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municipio
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s) that makes up the
Venezuela
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n state of
Cojedes and, according to a according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 97.687. The town of
Tinaquillo
Tinaquillo is a city in Cojedes, Venezuela
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is the
municipal seat
A municipal seat or ''cabecera municipal'' is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a municipality or civil parish with other villes or towns subordinated. The term is used in Brazil, Colombia,parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...
; Tinaquillo.
References
Municipalities of Cojedes (state)
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