Iribarren Municipality

Iribarren Municipality Municipio Iribarren
Municipality
Buildings of Barquisimeto
Flag Seal
Location in Lara
Iribarren Municipality Location in Venezuela
Coordinates: 10°08′07″N 69°23′38″W / 10.1353°N 69.3939°W / 10.1353; -69.3939
Country	Venezuela
State	Lara
Municipal seat	Barquisimeto
Government
• Mayor	Alfredo Ramos (MUD)
Area
• Total	2,733.9 km2 (1,055.6 sq mi)
Population  (2007)
• Total	1,027,022
• Density	380/km2 (970/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−4 (VET)
Area code(s)	0251
Website	Official website
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The Iribarren Municipality is one of the nine municipalities (municipios) that make up the Venezuelan state of Lara and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 1,027,022.^[1] The City of Barquisimeto is the shire town of the Iribarren Municipality.^[2]

The Iribarren Municipality, according to a 2011 population census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 996.230 (up from 915,634 in 2000). This amounts to 56% of the state's population.^[3] The municipality's population density is 372.11 inhabitants per square kilometre (963.8/sq mi).^[4]

The mayor of the Iribarren Municipality is Alfredo Ramos, elected on December 8, 2013. The municipality is divided into 10 parishes; Catedral, Concepción, El Cují, Juan de Villegas, Santa Rosa, Tamaca, Unión, Aguedo Felipe Alvarado, Buena Vista, and Juárez.^[2]

• iribarren-lara.gob.ve (in Spanish)
• Nuevo Sistema Ferroviario de Venezuela (in Spanish)
• Video of Barquisimeto and its surroundings (in Spanish)