Municipalities of Bolivia explained

Municipalities in Bolivia (Spanish; Castilian: municipios) are administrative divisions of the entire national territory governed by local elections. Municipalities are the third level of administrative divisions, below departments and provinces. Some of the provinces consist of only one municipality. In these cases the municipalities are identical to the provinces they belong to. There are 340 municipalities.

History of governance

Municipalities in Bolivia are each led by a mayor, an executive office. Mayors were appointed by the national government from 1878 to 1942 and from 1949 to 1987. Local elections were held under the 1942 municipal code, which was in force until 1991. The 1985 Organic Law of Municipalities restored local elections for mayor and created a legislative body, the municipal council.[1]

In 1994, the entire territory of Bolivia was merged into municipalities, where previously only urban areas were organized as municipalities. As an effect of decentralization through the 1994 Law of Popular Participation the number of municipalities in Bolivia has risen from an initial twenty-four (in 1994) to 327 (in 2005), to 337 (at the time of the 2010 elections),[2] [3] to 339 .[4] Of the 327 municipalities existing after 2005, 187 are inhabited by a mainly indigenous population; 184 of these are located in the five Andean departments, with the remaining three in Santa Cruz department.[5] New municipalities must have at least 10,000 residents, or 5,000 in the case of border areas.

List of municipalities

The municipalities are as follows ordered by department:

Beni

Cochabamba

La Paz

Oruro

Pando

Potosí

Santa Cruz

Tarija

Notes and References

  1. XI . 20 . 61–95 [68] . Córdova . Eduardo . Cochabamba es el centro es la ausencia: Impulsos estatales y sociales de la descentralización en Cochabamba (1994–2008) . Decursos: Revista de Ciencias Sociales . 2009 .
  2. Jorge Castel, "10 nuevos municipios elegirán a sus autoridades en los comicios," La Razón, 29 Marzo 2010.
  3. http://www.bolivia.com/noticIAS/AutoNoticias/DetalleNoticia42293.asp www.bolivia.com
  4. News: Se crean dos nuevos municipios en La Paz . Los Tiempos . 2012-01-02 . 2010-08-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150518065547/http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/actualidad/politica/20100809/se-crean-dos-nuevos-municipios-en-la-paz_84269_160598.html . 2015-05-18 .
  5. According to a definition where a majority identify with an indigenous people and speak an indigenous language, with a two-thirds majority meeting looser criteria. Book: Albó, Xavier . Vicepresidencia del Estado Plurinacional . Carlos Romero . Autonomías Indígenas en la realidad boliviana y su nueva Constitución . La Paz . April 2009 . 22.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Municipalities of Bolivia".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.