The Girardot Municipality is one of the nine
municipalities
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
(
municipio
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s) that makes up the
Venezuela
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n state of
Cojedes and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 11,906. The town of
El Baúl
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is the
municipal seat
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es; El Baúl and Sucre.
References
Municipalities of Cojedes (state)
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