The Lima Blanco Municipality is one of the nine
municipalities
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(
municipio
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s) that make 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 9,454. The town of
Macapo is the
shire town
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of the Lima Blanco Municipality.
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Demographics
The Lima Blanco Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, had a population of 9,161 (up from 7,965 in 2000). This amounted to 3.1% of the state's population. The municipality's population density is .
Government
The mayor of the Lima Blanco Municipality is José Orangel Sánchez Fernández, elected on October 31, 2004, with 36% of the vote. He replaced Moraima Machado shortly after the elections.
The municipality is divided into two
parish
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es; Macapo and La Aguadita (previous to December 30, 1994, the Lima Blanco Municipality contained only a single parish).
References
Municipalities of Cojedes (state)
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