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In the Dominican Republic, when a municipality consists of more than one urban center, those beside the municipalities seat can be elevated to the status of a municipal district (distrito municipal). A municipal council ( Junta Municipal ) for such a municipal district is nominated by the municipal council of the municipality to which it ...
Bank of Spain building (foreground) and Palacio de Comunicaciones. Contemporary Madrid came into its own after the death of general Francisco Franco.Reaction against the dictatorial bureaucracy centered in Madrid, and a history of centralism that predated Franco by centuries has resulted in the successful modern movement towards increased autonomy for the regions of Spain, considered ...
The municipal districts of San Salvador, the capital city of El Salvador, are naturally delimited by the Acelhuate River on the east, the San Jacinto Hill on the south east, the lower highlands of the Balsam Range on the South, El Picacho Mountain and the Bicentennial Park on the West, and North by the San Antonio River. The municipality is ...
According to the Constitution [6] and the law, [7] the municipalities are administered by the municipality's Municipal Office (ayuntamiento), which is a legal entity in its own right consisting of two bodies: the alcadía (Mayor's Office), with the alcalde (), and the Municipal Council (concejo de regidores), with at least five members (regidores).
The municipalities of El Salvador, called municipios are composed by 262 in total. Each one having its own capital and a variable number of cantons ; these are conformed of caseríos. In June 2023, President Nayib Bukele proposed the reduction of municipal councils to 44, with former municipalities becoming districts.
Postal codes in Costa Rica are five-digit numeric, and were introduced in March 2007; they are associated with and identify a unique district. The first digit denotes one of the seven provinces, the 2nd and 3rd refer to the 82 cantons (unique within the province), the 4th and 5th the 488 districts (unique within the canton). [2]
San Antonio de Guerra. Hato Viejo (D.M.) Santo Domingo Este. San Luis (D.M.) Santo Domingo Norte. La Victoria (D.M.) Santo Domingo Oeste. Instituto (D.M.) The following is a sortable table of the municipalities and municipal districts with population figures as of the 2012 census.
The ayuntamiento is composed of the mayor (Spanish: alcalde), the deputy mayors (Spanish: tenientes de alcalde) and the deliberative assembly (pleno) of councillors (concejales). Another form of local government used in small municipalities is the concejo abierto (open council), in which the deliberative assembly is formed by all the electors ...