The Cedeño Municipality is one of the 11 municipalities

Municipalities of Venezuela

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 (municipio

Municipio

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s) that makes up the Venezuela

Venezuela

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n state of Bolívar

Bolívar (state)

Bolívar State , is one of the 23 states into which Venezuela is divided. The state capital city is Ciudad Bolívar. Bolívar State covers a total surface area of 238,000 km² and in June 30, 2010 had an estimated population of 1,620,359....

. According to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 88,296. The town of Caicara del Orinoco

Caicara del Orinoco

Caicara del Orinoco is a town in, and the administrative seat of, Cedeño Municipality, Bolívar State, Venezuela. It was founded in the middle of the Eighteenth Century.Currently the Venezuelan government is building a bridge across the Orinoco at Caicara...

 is the shire town

County seat

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 of the Cedeño Municipality.

Demographics

The Cedeño Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 88,296 (up from 69,664 in 2000). This amounts to 5.8% of the state's population. The municipality's population density is 1.92 PD/sqkm.

Government

The mayor of the Cedeño Municipality is Luis Guillermo Troconiz Marquez, elected on October 31, 2004 with 25% of the vote. He replaced Ismael Ortuño shortly after the elections. The municipality is divided into five (six if you count the Capital Cedeño section) parish

Parish

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es; Altagracia, Ascensión Farreras, Guaniamo, La Urbana, and Pijiguaos.

External links

• cedeno-bolivar.gob.ve