The Andrés Bello Municipality is one of the 23
municipalities
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(
municipio
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s) that makes up the
Venezuela
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n state of
Mérida and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 14,029. The town of
La Azulita is the
shire town
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of the Andrés Bello Municipality.
[http://www.ine.gob.ve/secciones/division/Merida.zip] The municipality is one of a number in Venezuela named "
Andrés Bello Municipality", in honour of the writer
Andrés Bello
Andrés de Jesús María y José Bello López (; November 29, 1781 – October 15, 1865) was a Venezuelan Humanism, humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist, whose political and literary works constitute a ...
.
Demographics
The Andrés Bello Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 14,029 (up from 11,962 in 2000). This amounts to 1.7% of the state's population. The municipality's population density is .
[http://www.ine.gob.ve/sintesisestadistica/estados/merida/cuadros/Poblacion4.xls]
Government
The mayor of the Andrés Bello Municipality is Maria Elena Villasmil, elected on November 21, 2021, with 55% of the vote. The municipality is divided into one
Parish
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(Capital Andrés Bello).
See also
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La Azulita
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Mérida
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Municipalities of Venezuela
Municipalities () are subdivisions of the states of Venezuela. There are 335 municipalities dividing the 23 states and the Capital District.
Municipalities and their seats by federal entity Capital District
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References
Municipalities of Mérida (state)
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