The Municipio Gran Sabana is one of the 11 municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Bolívar and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 28,450.[1] The town of Santa Elena de Uairén is the shire town of the Gran Sabana Municipality.[2]
Municipio Gran Sabana
Municipio Gran Sabana | |
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 Location in Bolívar | |
.svg)  Municipio Gran Sabana Location in Venezuela | |
| Coordinates: 5°12′08″N 61°45′14″W / 5.2022°N 61.7539°W | |
| Country |  Venezuela |
| State | Bolívar |
| Municipal seat | Santa Elena de Uairén |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Manuel E. De Jesús Valléz (MVR) |
| Area | |
• Total | 34,014.6 km2 (13,133.1 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 28,450 |
| • Density | 0.84/km2 (2.2/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC−4 (VET) |
| Area code(s) | 0289 |
Demographics
editThe Gran Sabana Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 34,095 (up from 27,027 in 2000). This amounts to 2.2% of the state's population.[3] The municipality's population density is 1.03 inhabitants per square kilometre (2.7/sq mi).[4] As of 2011, the Gran Sabana Municipality has amongst the highest proportion of indigenous people in the country, roughly 77.67%, the majority of which being Pemon.[5]
Government
editThe mayor of the Gran Sabana Municipality is Emilio González, elected in the 2017 Venezuelan municipal elections.[6] He replaced Manuel Vallés shortly after the elections.[7] The municipality is divided into one (two if you count the Capital Gran Sabana section) parish (Ikabarú).[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "GeoHive - Venezuela extended population statistics". Archived from the original on 2016-03-15. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
- ^ a b http://www.ine.gob.ve/secciones/division/Bolivar.zip [permanent dead link]
- ^ http://www.ine.gob.ve/sintesisestadistica/estados/bolivar/cuadros/Poblacion5.xls [permanent dead link]
- ^ http://www.ine.gob.ve/sintesisestadistica/estados/bolivar/cuadros/Poblacion4.xls [permanent dead link]
- ^ Angosto-Ferrández, Luis F. (2022-03-01). "Cultural labor and the defetishization of environments: connecting ethnographies of tourism in Venezuela and Chile". Dialectical Anthropology. 46 (1): 55–72. doi:10.1007/s10624-021-09639-0. ISSN 1573-0786. PMC 8601866. PMID 34815615.
- ^ http://www.cne.gob.ve/regionales2004/6/alcaldedis=0&edo=6&mun=9&par=0&cen=0&mesa=0&cua=0.html [bare URL]
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-10-02. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
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External links
edit- gransabana-bolivar.gob.ve [permanent dead link] (in Spanish)
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