Antonio Díaz Municipality, Delta Amacuro
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The Antonio Díaz Municipality is one of the four
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 eastern
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
Delta Amacuro Delta Amacuro State (, ) is one of the 23 States of Venezuela, states of Venezuela, and is the location of the Orinoco Delta. The Paria Gulf and the Atlantic Ocean are found to the north, Bolívar State (Venezuela), Bolívar State is found to th ...
and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 26,655. The town of Curiapo is the
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Demographics

The Antonio Díaz Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 27,693 (up from 21,664 in 2000). This amounts to 17.8% of the state's population. The municipality's population density is .


Government

The mayor of the Antonio Díaz Municipality is Amado Antonio Heredia Bolaño, re-elected on October 31, 2004, with 71% of the vote. The municipality is divided into six
parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...
es; Curiapo, Almirante Luis Brión, Francisco Aniceto Lugo, Manuel Renaud, Padre Barral, and Santos de Abelgas (previous to February 25, 1995, the Antonio Díaz Municipality contained only a single parish).


References

Municipalities of Delta Amacuro {{DeltaAmacuro-geo-stub