Puerto Cabello Municipality

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Municipio Puerto Cabello
Location of Puerto Cabello within Carabobo View of Puerto Cabello
Country	Venezuela
State	Carabobo
Shiretown	Puerto Cabello
Area	434 km² (269.67 sq mi)
Population (2007)	194,593
Density	448.37/km² (721.6/sq mi)
Mayor	Osmel Vicente Ramos Dolande (MVR)
Time zone	VST (UTC-4:30)
Area code(s)	0242
Website	puertocabello-carabobo.gov.ve

The Puerto Cabello Municipality is one of the 14 municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Carabobo and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 194,593.^[1] The city of Puerto Cabello is the shire town of the Puerto Cabello Municipality.^[2]

1 History
2 Demographics
3 Government
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] History

Due to Puerto Cabello's location it was attacked by buccaneers and was a popular market for Dutch smugglers during the colonial era. It was the last Spanish royalist stronghold during Venezuela’s war for independence, it was captured by José Antonio Páez in 1823.

[edit] Demographics

The Puerto Cabello Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 194,593 (up from 176,552 in 2000). This amounts to 8.7% of the state's population.^[3] The municipality's population density is 721.6 people per square mile (448.37/km²).^[4]

[edit] Government

The mayor of the Puerto Cabello Municipality is Osmel Vicente Ramos Dolande, re-elected on October 31, 2004 with 45% of the vote.^[5]^[6] The municipality is divided into eight parishes; Bartolomé Salom, Democracia, Fraternidad, Goaigoaza, Juan José Flores, Unión, Borburata, and Patanemo.^[7]