A departamento ( Spanish pronunciation: [depaɾtaˈmento] ) is a country subdivision in several Latin American countries, mostly as top-level subnational divisions (except in Argentina). It is usually simply translated as " department ".
3-407: Ten countries currently have departamentos . Mexico in the 1830s was divided into 24 departamentos , which were first-level divisions. It was during an attempt to centralize the government . This article about geography terminology is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Centralized government A centralized government (also united government )
6-483: Is one in which both executive and legislative power is concentrated centrally at the higher level as opposed to it being more distributed at various lower level governments. In a national context, centralization occurs in the transfer of power to a typically unitary sovereign nation state . Executive and/or legislative power is then minimally delegated to unit subdivisions (state, county, municipal and other local authorities ). Menes , an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of
9-417: The early dynastic period , is credited by classical tradition with having united Upper and Lower Egypt , and as the founder of the first dynasty (Dynasty I), became the first ruler to institute a centralized government. All constituted governments are, to some degree, necessarily centralized, in the sense that even a federation exerts an authority or prerogative beyond that of its constituent parts. To
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