Diego Bautista Urbaneja Municipality

Diego Bautista Urbaneja Municipality

Municipio Diego Bautista Urbaneja
Diego Bautista Urbaneja Municipality Municipio Diego Bautista Urbaneja
Municipality
	Houses in Lechería
	VET)
Area code(s)	0281
Website	Official website
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The Diego Bautista Urbaneja Municipality is one of the 21

Lechería is the shire town of the Diego Bautista Urbaneja Municipality.^[2] The municipality is named for the independence hero Diego Bautista Urbaneja

.

History

The town of Lechería was founded as San Miguel de Neverí in 1535, but resistance from native groups, among them being the Cumanagotos, caused the town to be abandoned one year later by the Spaniards.

The current town of Lechería made its prominence after the Spanish Crown ordered the construction of the Fortín de la Magdalena fort in order to prevent pirate attacks on sailors that took the

Barcelona-Cumaná route (the fort was completed in 1799 and is located on the Cerro el Morro). Later, in 1817 during the Venezuelan War of Independence, Simón Bolívar briefly occupied the fort and then, in 1819, the fort was captured by General Rafael Urdaneta

and his men.

By the middle of the 19th century, the region was developed into a big goat milk producer in order to meet the needs of the growing population of Barcelona. From this moment on, the town became known as Lechería. Later, a major fishing industry was also developed.

On 12 September 1967,

Puerto la Cruz

accelerated its growth toward the end of the 1990s.

Demographics

The Diego Bautista Urbaneja Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 26,265 (up from 22,177 in 2000). This amounts to 1.8% of the state's population.^[3] The municipality's population density is 2,188.75 inhabitants per square kilometre (5,668.8/sq mi).^[4]

Government

The mayor of the Diego Bautista Urbaneja Municipality is Manuel Ferreira G, elected on 10 December 2017.^[5] He replaced Gustavo Marcano shortly after the elections. The municipality is divided into two parishes; Lechería and El Morro (previous to 27 June 1995, the Diego Bautista Urbaneja Municipality contained only a single parish).^[2]

References

^ "GeoHive - Venezuela extended population statistics". Archived from the original on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
^ ^a ^b http://www.ocei.gov.ve/secciones/division/Anzoategui.zip ^{[permanent dead link]}
^ http://www.ocei.gov.ve/sintesisestadistica/estados/anzoategui/cuadros/Poblacion5.xls ^{[permanent dead link]}
^ http://www.ocei.gov.ve/sintesisestadistica/estados/anzoategui/cuadros/Poblacion4.xls ^{[permanent dead link]}
^ http://www.cne.gob.ve/divulgacion_regionales_2008/index.php?e=02&m=00&p=00&c=00&t=00&ca=00&v=02 ^{[bare URL]}

External links

urbaneja-anzoategui.gob.ve ^{[permanent dead link]} (in Spanish)

[1] "GeoHive - Venezuela extended population statistics". Archived from the original on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2015.

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[4] ttp://www.ocei.gov.ve/sintesisestadistica/estados/anzoategui/cuadros/Poblacion4.xls ^{[permanent dead link]}

[5] ttp://www.cne.gob.ve/divulgacion_regionales_2008/index.php?e=02&m=00&p=00&c=00&t=00&ca=00&v=02 ^{[bare URL]}

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