19-528: Juara is a municipality located in the state of Mato Grosso in the Central-West Region of Brazil . It is known as the Cattle Capital. Its area is 22,622.350 km (8,734.538 sq mi), and its population is 35,121 inhabitants (2020 estimate). The town's economy is based in three field: Wood extraction, cattle rearing and agriculture. However, the wood is coming to an end. Because of that,
38-478: A province and considered equivalent to a corregimiento . The term comarca is used in several regions in Spain: In other places, such as Extremadura , the comarca may refer simply to a loosely-defined region. Because of the word's long-standing use, comarca is sometimes used as the basis for the promotion of tourism with emphasis on local cultural tradition and history. Some Spanish-language editions of
57-760: Is a traditional region or local administrative division found in Portugal , Spain , and some of their former colonies, like Brazil , Nicaragua , and Panama . The term is derived from the term marca , meaning a "march, mark" , plus the prefix co - , meaning "together, jointly". The comarca is known in Aragonese as redolada ( IPA: [reðoˈlaða] ) and in Basque as eskualde ( IPA: [es̺kualde] ). In addition, in Galician , comarcas are also called bisbarras ( IPA: [bizˈβarɐs] ). Although
76-479: Is divided into only 62 municipalities), and therefore they cover large areas incorporating several separated cities or towns that do not necessarily conform to one single conurbation. Southern and eastern states on the other hand, are divided into many small municipalities (e.g. Minas Gerais ), and therefore large urban areas usually extend over several municipalities which form one single conurbation. The Federal District cannot be divided into municipalities , which
95-482: Is why its territory is composed of several administrative regions . These regions are directly managed by the government of the Federal District, which exercises constitutional and legal powers that are equivalent to those of the states , as well as those of the municipalities, thus simultaneously assuming all the obligations arising from them. The 1988 Brazilian Constitution treats the municipalities as parts of
114-539: The Brazilian states . Brazil currently has 5,570 municipalities, which, given the 2019 population estimate of 210,147,125, makes an average municipality population of 37,728 inhabitants. The average state in Brazil has 214 municipalities. Roraima is the least subdivided state, with 15 municipalities, while Minas Gerais is the most, with 853. Northern states are divided into small numbers of large municipalities (e.g. Amazonas
133-492: The comarca now is the basic territorial division in the judicial system. It corresponds to the territorial area of jurisdiction of a court of first instance. The comarca may correspond to a municipality or group several small municipalities together. Presently, in Brazil, there are 2,680 comarcas . A judiciary organization reform implemented in Portugal in 2014 reduced the number of comarcas from 231 to 23. According to
152-631: The countryside ). Municipalities can be split or merged to form new municipalities within the borders of the state, if the population of the involved municipalities expresses a desire to do so in a plebiscite . However, these must abide by the Brazilian Constitution , and forming exclaves or seceding from the state or union is expressly forbidden. Comarca A comarca ( Spanish: [koˈmaɾka] , Portuguese: [kuˈmaɾkɐ] , Catalan: [kuˈmarkə] , Galician: [koˈmaɾka̝] )
171-536: The Crown in the district. In the 19th century, the comarcas were replaced by separate administrative and judicial divisions to reflect the implementation of the separation of executive and judicial powers. The new administrative divisions became the administrative districts and the new judicial divisions kept the name comarca . In Brazil, Portugal, and some other countries of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries,
190-570: The English word " county " and its near synonym " shire " have similar meanings, they are usually translated into Spanish and Portuguese as condado , a term which in the Iberian Peninsula refers only to regions historically ruled by a conde ( count or earl ). However, "comarca" is occasionally used such as in the Spanish Misplaced Pages entry for comarca and some translations of The Lord of
209-454: The Federation and not simply dependent subdivisions of the states. Each municipality has an autonomous local government, comprising a mayor ( prefeito ) and a legislative body called municipal chamber ( câmara municipal ). Both the local government and the legislative body are directly elected by the population every four years. These elections take place at the same time all over the country;
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#1732876876485228-554: The Rings (see below). In the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), comarcas are used as follows. From the Middle Ages until the 16th century, the comarcas corresponded to the large administrative divisions of Portugal. There were six such traditional divisions: Entre-Douro-e-Minho , Trás-os-Montes , Beira , Estremadura , Alentejo and Algarve , of which the last had
247-643: The capital of Mato Grosso is vast, it takes about 12 hours by bus from Juara to Cuiabá . For this reason, population prefer to go to Sinop by bus because it is nearer than Cuiabá and then they take an airplane there, but the flight is expensive. The city is served by the Mauro Luiz Frizon Airport . This Mato Grosso , Brazil location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Municipalities of Brazil Recent elections The municipalities of Brazil ( Portuguese : municípios do Brasil ) are administrative divisions of
266-399: The cities of Torreón , Coahuila , Gómez Palacio and Lerdo Durango . In Panama, the comarca indígena is an administrative region for an area with a substantial Amerindian population. Four comarcas ( Emberá-Wounaan , Guna Yala , Naso Tjër Di , and Ngöbe-Buglé ) exist as equivalent to provinces . Two smaller comarcas ( Guna de Madugandí and Guna de Wargandí ) are subordinate to
285-477: The development has become slow in this place. Juara is situated about 730 km from the state capital which is Cuiabá , there are two highways of which one is MT 338 that links Juara to Cuiabá and the other is MT 220 that links Juara to Sinop . In the last years many people have moved away because of the lack of jobs and education. The students who want to go to a good college have to move to other cities, they usually move to Sinop or Cuiabá . The distance from
304-415: The honorary title of "kingdom". In the 16th century, the comarcas started gradually to be referred to as "provinces". The name " comarca " was then applied to the new administrative and judicial subdivisions of the provinces, created in the 17th century. Each comarca corresponded to the territorial area of jurisdiction of a corregedor , a high-ranking administrative and judicial officer who represented
323-504: The last municipal elections were held on 15 November 2020. Each municipality has the constitutional power to approve its own laws, as well as collecting taxes and receiving funds from the state and federal governments. However, municipal governments have no judicial power per se , and courts are only organised at the state or federal level. A subdivision of the state judiciary, or comarca , can either correspond to an individual municipality or encompass several municipalities. The seat of
342-649: The municipal administration is a nominated city ( cidade ), with no specification in the law about the minimum population, area or facilities. The city always has the same name as the municipality, as they are not treated as distinct entities. Municipalities can be subdivided, only for administrative purposes, into districts (normally, new municipalities are formed from these districts). Other populated sites are villages, but with no legal effect or regulation. Almost all municipalities are subdivided into neighbourhoods ( bairros ), although most municipalities do not officially define their neighbourhood limits (usually small cities in
361-530: The new judicial division of 2015, Angola will be again subdivided into 60 comarcas , each with a court of first instance. The courts of comarca will replace the previous provincial and municipal courts. Comarca is also the name of a suburb of Luanda , the capital of Angola. The ninth-largest metropolitan area in Mexico is known as the Comarca Lagunera . The region is made up of 15 municipalities, including
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