Miranda is one of the 14

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

Carabobo Carabobo State (, ) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela, located in the north of the country, about two hours by car from Caracas. The state capital city is Valencia, which is also the country's main industrial center. The state's area is and ...

and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 29,092. The town of Miranda is the

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of the Miranda Municipality.http://www.ine.gob.ve/secciones/division/Carabobo.zip

Name

The municipality is one of several in Venezuela named Miranda Municipality for independence hero

Francisco de Miranda Sebastián Francisco de Miranda y Rodríguez de Espinoza (28 March 1750 – 14 July 1816), commonly known as Francisco de Miranda (), was a Venezuelan military leader and revolutionary who fought in the American Revolutionary War, the French R ...

Demographics

The Miranda Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 27,609 (up from 23,869 in 2000). This amounts to 1.2% of the state's population. The municipality's population density is .

Government

The mayor of the Miranda Municipality is Eduardo A. Sequera. He replaced Fernando Jimenez shortly after the last municipal elections. The municipality is divided into one

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 ...

(Miranda).

References

External links

miranda-carabobo.gob.ve
Municipalities of Carabobo {{Carabobo-geo-stub