Pedro Zaraza Municipality

The Pedro Zaraza Municipality is one of the 15 municipalities (municipios) that makes up the central Venezuelan state of Guárico and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 60,595.[1] The town of Zaraza is the shire town of the Pedro Zaraza Municipality.[2]

Pedro Zaraza Municipality

Municipio Pedro Zaraza
Municipality
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Location in Guárico
Pedro Zaraza Municipality
Location in Venezuela
Coordinates: 9°20′22″N 65°19′00″W
Country Venezuela
StateGuárico
Municipal seatZaraza
Government
 • MayorDavid Fares Páez (MVR)
Area
 • Total2,410 km2 (930 sq mi)
Population
 (2007)
 • Total60,595
 • Density25/km2 (65/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC−04:00 (VET)
Area code(s)0238
WebsiteOfficial website

Demographics

The Pedro Zaraza Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 60,595 (up from 55,957 in 2000). This amounts to 8.1% of the state's population.[3] The municipality's population density is 25.1 inhabitants per square kilometre (65/sq mi).[4]

Government

The mayor of the Pedro Zaraza Municipality is Freddi Ali Gomez, elected on November 23, 2008 [5][6] The municipality is divided into two parishes; Capital Zaraza and San José de Unare.[2]

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gollark: What if they're not fighting crime but just random innocent people? Regular clothes?
gollark: The solution is, of course, to remove all weapons from police and train them only in hand to hand combat.
gollark: I'm not sure it's a "they have guns" problem as much as a cultural one. Apparently non-US countries can handle that mostly fine.
gollark: Anyway, I'm not sure about your "⅓ of the population bought into an alternate reality" thing. Politics is not really about, well, policies and the real world, much of the time, but tribalism and signalling.

See also

References
  1. http://www.ocei.gov.ve/sintesisestadistica/estados/guarico/cuadros/Poblacion6.xls%5B%5D
  2. http://www.ocei.gov.ve/secciones/division/Guarico.zip%5B%5D
  3. http://www.ocei.gov.ve/sintesisestadistica/estados/guarico/cuadros/Poblacion5.xls%5B%5D
  4. http://www.ocei.gov.ve/sintesisestadistica/estados/guarico/cuadros/Poblacion4.xls%5B%5D
  5. http://www.cne.gob.ve/regionales2004/10/alcaldedis=0&edo=10&mun=7&par=0&cen=0&mesa=0&cua=0.html
  6. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 2, 2006. Retrieved March 15, 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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