Bejuma Municipality | |
Native Name: | Municipio Bejuma |
Native Name Lang: | es |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Flag Size: | 100px |
Seal Size: | 100px |
Mapsize: | 300px |
Pushpin Map: | Venezuela |
Pushpin Map Alt: | Map showing the location of Bejuma Municipality within Venezuela |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300px |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Venezuela |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Carabobo |
Seat Type: | Municipal seat |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Lorenzo Remedios (PSUV) |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Total: | 48538 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Title1: | Established |
Established Title2: | Incorporated |
Timezone: | VET |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Area Code Type: | Area code(s) |
Area Code: | 0249 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Footnotes: | See main article: other. |
The Bejuma Municipality is one of the 14 municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Carabobo and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 48,538.[1] The town of Bejuma is the shire town of the Bejuma Municipality.[2]
The Bejuma Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 45,306 (up from 39,945 in 2000). This amounts to 2% of the state's population.[3] The municipality's population density is .[4]
The mayor of the Bejuma Municipality is Lorenzo Remedios, re-elected on November 23, 2008, with 46% of the vote.[5] The municipality is divided into three parishes; Bejuma, Canoabo, and Simón Bolívar.
The municipality of Bejuma lies in the Cordillera La Costa Montane Forests ecoregion, and the major habitat type is tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests.[6]