Iribarren Municipality
Iribarren Municipality
Municipio Iribarren | |
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| Buildings of Barquisimeto Buildings of Barquisimeto | |
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| Country | File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela |
| State | Lara |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Alfredo Ramos (MUD) |
| Population (2007) | |
• Total | 1,027,022 |
| Time zone | UTC−4 (VET) |
| Area code(s) | 0251 |
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The Iribarren Municipality is one of the nine municipalities (municipios) that make up the Venezuelan state of Lara and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 1,027,022.[1] The City of Barquisimeto is the shire town of the Iribarren Municipality.[2]
Demographics
The Iribarren Municipality, according to a 2011 population census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 996.230 (up from 915,634 in 2000). This amounts to 56% of the state's population.[3] The municipality's population density is 372.11 inhabitants per square kilometre (963.8/sq mi).[4]
Government
The mayor of the Iribarren Municipality is Alfredo Ramos, elected on December 8, 2013. The municipality is divided into 10 parishes; Catedral, Concepción, El Cují, Juan de Villegas, Santa Rosa, Tamaca, Unión, Aguedo Felipe Alvarado, Buena Vista, and Juárez.[2]
References
- ↑ http://www.ine.gob.ve/sintesisestadistica/estados/lara/cuadros/Poblacion6.xls[permanent dead link]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.ine.gob.ve/secciones/division/Lara.zip[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "Censos de población y vivienda". Archived from the original on 2015-03-16. Retrieved 2019-02-08.
- ↑ http://www.ine.gob.ve/sintesisestadistica/estados/lara/cuadros/Poblacion4.xls[permanent dead link]
External links
- iribarren-lara.gob.ve (in Spanish)
- Nuevo Sistema Ferroviario de Venezuela (in Spanish)
- Video of Barquisimeto and its surroundings (in Spanish)