| Bolívar Municipality | |
| Native Name: | Municipio Bolívar |
| 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 Bolívar Municipality within Venezuela |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300px |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Venezuela |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Táchira |
| Seat Type: | Municipal seat |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Juan Vicente Cañas Alviarez (MVR) |
| Population As Of: | 2007 |
| Population Total: | 60149 |
| 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: | 0276 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Footnotes: | See main article: other. |
Bolívar Municipality is one of the 29 municipalities that makes up the western Venezuelan state of Táchira and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 60,149.[1] The town of San Antonio del Táchira is the shiretown of the Bolívar Municipality.[2]
The municipality is one of several in Venezuela named "Bolívar Municipality" in honour of Venezuelan independence hero Simón Bolívar.
The Bolívar Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 60,149 (up from 50,209 in 2000). This amounts to 5.1% of the state's population.[3] The municipality's population density is .[4]
The mayor of the Bolívar Municipality is Juan Vicente Cañas Alviarez, elected on October 31, 2004, with 48% of the vote.[5] He replaced Ramon Vivas shortly after the elections.[6] The municipality is divided into four parishes; Bolívar, Palotal, Juan Vicente Gómez, and Isaías Medina Angarita (parishes Juan Vicente Gómez and Isaías Medina Angarita were officially separated from the Bolívar parish on January 25, 1995).