Venezuela is a federal state that is divided into states, and these into autonomous municipalities and these in turn into parishes. In total, the country has 1,136 parishes that make up the 335 municipalities (integrated of the 23 states and the Capital District).
9-622: Capaya is a town and parish in Acevedo Municipality, Miranda , Venezuela. It is located about 12 miles (19 km) east north east of the Caribbean Sea. Capaya is at an elevation of 259.2 feet (79.0 meters) in relation to sea level. As of 2011 census the town's population was 13,151. This article related to a location in Miranda , Venezuela is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Parishes of Venezuela There are
18-668: A total of 1,136 parishes in Venezuela, the state with the most parishes is Zulia with 110 and the one with the fewest parishes is La Guaira State with 11. The municipality with the most parishes in the Capital District is the Libertador Municipality with 22 parishes; the municipality with the most parishes among the states is the Maracaibo Municipality of the state of Zulia with 18. The Gran Sabana parish, located in
27-901: Is a combination of the parish flags. The San José parish of the Libertador Municipality of Caracas also has an ancestral parish shield. Other parishes with a flag are the Seque Parish, Borojó Parish and Capatárida Parish of the Buchivacoa Municipality of the Falcón State and the José Gregorio Bastidas Parish of the Palavecino Municipality of the Lara State. In Táchira, the Parish of Bramón in the Junín Municipality, has
36-411: Is directed by a prefect (appointed by the municipal mayor), in addition the parish is constitutionally composed of a parish board. Since the elections of 1992 the citizens directly elected the representatives of the parish boards, in 2005 for the first time elections were held to elect the parish boards separately from those of governor and mayor, since that date no more parish elections have been held with
45-630: The Gran Sabana municipality in the state of Bolívar with 29,305 km² is considered the largest in the country, in contrast, the Santa Teresa parish belonging to the Libertador municipality of the Capital District is the smallest with 0.8 km² equivalent to 80 hectares. In Venezuela parishes are the lowest-ranking political-territorial unit, where the municipalities are divided, the administrative division
54-487: The intention of replacing them with the communal parish boards. The councilors who make up the municipal legislative power are elected by parish as a representation of each parish of the municipality, the councilors elected by list represent the entire municipality, the electoral circuits vary, usually one councilor is elected per 20,000 inhabitants. Parishes can be classified as urban parishes if they have at least 50,000 inhabitants, in which case they can choose 5 members of
63-528: The interests of the surrounding neighborhood, it was the cabildos that signed the independence of Venezuela in 1811. Normally the parishes do not have symbols since their function is administrative, however some parishes by tradition or by initiative have their own symbols such as those of the Lobatera Municipality of the Táchira state, which have ancestral flags and shields and the flag of the municipality
72-453: The parish board (a president, a secretary and 3 members), the territory of urban parishes is dedicated to housing development and industry and trade activities. Rural parishes have less than 50,000 inhabitants, these elect 3 members of the parish board (a president, a secretary and a member) and their territory will be dedicated to agricultural production, or as a nature reserve. The same municipality can have both types of parish or only one of
81-444: The two. Parishes have the express power to manage the following matters and processes: The colonial provinces did not have subdivisions as such but a hierarchy of city, town, village and hamlet, according to the importance of the population, classifying each one according to its main square, town hall, cathedral and a fortification, a population devoid of all that was a hamlet. The cities with their cabildos had mayors and represented
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