The Mario Briceño Iragorry Municipality is one of the 18

municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

(

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s) that make up the

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

n state of

Aragua Aragua State ( es, Estado Aragua, ) is one of the 23 States of Venezuela, states of Venezuela. It is located in the north-central region of Venezuela. It has plains and jungle (terrain), jungles and Caribbean beaches. The most popular are Cata a ...

and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 99,852. The town of El Limón is the

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of the Mario Briceño Iragorry Municipality.http://www.ine.gob.ve/secciones/division/Aragua.zip The municipality is named for the writer Mario Briceño Iragorry.

Demographics

The Mario Briceño Iragorry Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 103,269 (up from 98,429 in 2000). This amounts to 6.2% of the state's population. The municipality's population density is .

Government

The mayor of the Mario Briceño Iragorry Municipality is Carlos Javier Velarde, elected on October 31, 2004, with 52% of the vote. He replaced Pedro Maurera shortly after the elections. The municipality is divided into two

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es; Capital Mario Briceño Iragorry and Caña de Azúcar (created January 30, 1995).

References

External links

* Municipalities of Aragua {{Aragua-geo-stub