Antonio José de Sucre is one of the 12
municipalities
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(
municipio
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s) that makes up the
Venezuela
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n state of
Barinas and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 81,665. The town of
Socopó is the
shire town
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of the Antonio José de Sucre Municipality.
[http://www.ine.gob.ve/secciones/division/Barinas.zip ] The municipality is one of several in Venezuela named 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 ...
(the others include only his surname, as "
Sucre Municipality").
Demographics
The Antonio José de Sucre Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 74,968 (up from 63,947 in 2000). This amounts to 9.9% of the state's population. The municipality's population density is .
Government
The mayor of the Antonio José de Sucre Municipality is Salvador Guerrero, elected on October 31, 2004, with 46% of the vote. He replaced Trino Hurtado shortly after the elections.
The municipality is divided into three
parish
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es; Ticoporo, Andrés Bello, and Nicolás Pulido.
References
External links
antoniojosedesucre-barinas.gob.ve
Municipalities of Barinas (state)
Socopó
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