Libertador Municipality | |
Native Name: | Municipio Libertador |
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 Libertador Municipality within Venezuela |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300px |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Venezuela |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Monagas |
Seat Type: | Municipal seat |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Miguel Presilla (PCV) |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Total: | 53917 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Title1: | Established |
Established Title2: | Incorporated |
Timezone: | VET |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Area Code Type: | Area code(s) |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Footnotes: | See main article: other. |
Libertador is one of the 13 municipalities of the state of Monagas, Venezuela. The municipality's capital is Temblador.
Libertador Municipality is located to the southwest of Monagas State. Its vegetation is tropical dry forest, with average annual temperature of 27.1°C and average annual precipitation of 1,000 mm. Among the main watercourses are Caño Mánamo and the Morichal Largo River.
The economy is based on agriculture and forestry (primarily pine plantations).
The indigenous Warao people live in Libertador Municipality. They speak Warao, an agglutinative language isolate.
A typical dish of this region is Soup of Ocumo, prepared with banana, jojoto and leaf sprouts of ocumo (Xanthosoma).
On September 8, the region celebrates the day of the Virgin of the Valley, patron of the east of Venezuela.