Tinaquillo Municipality | |
Native Name: | Municipio Tinaquillo |
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 Tinaquillo Municipality within Venezuela |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300px |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Venezuela |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Cojedes |
Seat Type: | Municipal seat |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | José Gonzalo Mujica Herrera |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Total: | 97687 |
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: | 0258 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Footnotes: | See main article: other. |
The Tinaquillo Municipality (was known as Falcón Municipality before 2011) is one of the nine municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Cojedes and, according to a according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 97.687.[1] The town of Tinaquillo is the municipal seat of the Tinaquillo Municipality.
The Tinaquillo Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 90,773 (up from 74,872 in 2000). This amounts to 30.2% of the state's population. The municipality's population density is .
The mayor of the Tinaquillo Municipality is José Gonzalo Mujica Herrera, elected on October 31, 2004 with 42% of the vote.[2] He replaced Dimas Ramos shortly after the elections.[3] The municipality is divided into one parish; Tinaquillo.