Municipio

Municipio (Spanish: [muniˈθipjo], Italian: [muniˈtʃiːpjo]) and município (Portuguese: [muniˈsipiu]) are country subdivisions in Italy and several Hispanophone and Lusophone nations, respectively. They are often translated as "municipality". In the English language, a municipality often is defined as relating to a single city or town;^[1] however, in Spanish, the term "municipio" may not mean a single city or town, but rather a jurisdiction housing several towns and cities, like a township, county, borough or civil parish.^[2] The Italian term "municipalità" refers either to a single city or a group of cities and towns in a township,^{[citation needed]} but Portuguese usage of the term is almost entirely restricted to a cluster of cities or towns like in a county, township and so forth. However, in Brazil, a Municipio is an independent city & a public corporporation with status of Federated Entity.^[3]

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Country	Term	Detailed article	Administered by	Comment
Angola	Município is used	Municipalities of Angola
Argentina	Municipio is used	Municipalities of Argentina		According to laws of the provinces
Bolivia	Municipio is used	Municipalities of Bolivia		Below the provinces
Brazil	Município is used	Municipalities of Brazil		Município with elected (Prefeito) (mayor) and Vereador (plural: Vereadores) (councilors).They are part of the federation De facto et De jure
Chile	Comuna is used	Communes of Chile	Municipalidad with elected alcalde (mayor) and councilors
Colombia	Municipio is used	Municipalities of Colombia		Below departments
Costa Rica	Municipalidad is used			Coterminous with the Cantones
Cuba	Municipio is used	Municipalities of Cuba
Dominican Republic	Municipio is used	Municipalities of the Dominican Republic	ayuntamiento (elected municipal council) and síndico (mayor)
Ecuador	Cantón is used	Cantons of Ecuador	Municipio or Municipalidad with elected alcalde (mayor) and concejales (councilors)	Below provinces. Further subdivided into urban and rural parishes.
El Salvador	Municipio is used	Municipalities of El Salvador	Alcalde	Below departments
Guatemala	Municipio is used	Municipalities of Guatemala	Municipalidad	Below departments
Honduras	Municipalidad is used	Municipalities of Honduras	Alcalde	Below departments
Italy	Municipalità (municipio is the comune hall, the building housing the government.) Municipio is also a station on the Naples Metro.	Municipalities of Italy	Sometimes a subdivision of comune^[a]
Mexico	Municipio is used	Municipalities of Mexico	Ayuntamiento, headed by a municipal president	Below states
Nicaragua	Municipio is used	Municipalities of Nicaragua	Alcalde	Below departments
Paraguay	Municipalidad is used
Peru	Municipalidad is used	Municipalities of Peru
Philippines	Municipalidad and Município (Spanish), Munisipalidad, or Munisipyo (Tagalog and Cebuano)	Municipalities of the Philippines	alkalde (informal expression for mayor) and councilors (konsehal, a Spanish loanword alcalde and in local languages)	Below provinces
Portugal	Município is used (also called concelho)	Municipalities of Portugal	Câmara Municipal (executive) and Assembleia Municipal (legislative)
Puerto Rico	Municipio is used	Municipalities of Puerto Rico	Alcalde and municipal legislature
Spain	Municipio is used^[b]	Municipalities of Spain	Ayuntamiento, headed by an alcalde or Presidente de la Corporación
Uruguay	Municipio is used^[4]	Municipalities of Uruguay	Alcaldía (municipal council), headed by an alcalde
Venezuela	Municipio is used	Municipalities of Venezuela	Consejo Municipal (municipal council) with separately elected alcalde and independent comptroller	Below state

Notes[]

^ Municipalità refers only to administration, whereas comune refers to both administration and territory; it is also an administrative sub-division of a large city, such as Rome.
^ In Catalan municipi (IPA: [muniˈsipi]), Galician municipio (IPA: [muniˈθipjʊ]) or bisbarra (IPA: [bizˈβarɐ]) and Basque udalerria (IPA: [udaleria]).

References[]

^ "Municipality". Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, LLC. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
^ "municipio". Word Reference. Word Reference. Retrieved 23 June 2015. English: township - borough - county - township line
^ "Município". Word Reference. Word Reference. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
^ "Creación de municipios en Uruguay a partir de 2010". data.com.uy. 2009. Archived from the original on 14 August 2011. Retrieved 23 May 2011.

[example-4] Municipalità refers only to administration, whereas comune refers to both administration and territory; it is also an administrative sub-division of a large city, such as Rome.

[5] In Catalan municipi (IPA: [muniˈsipi]), Galician municipio (IPA: [muniˈθipjʊ]) or bisbarra (IPA: [bizˈβarɐ]) and Basque udalerria (IPA: [udaleria]).

[definition-1] "Municipality". Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, LLC. Retrieved 23 June 2015.

[connotations-2] "municipio". Word Reference. Word Reference. Retrieved 23 June 2015. English: township - borough - county - township line

[Portuguese-3] "Município". Word Reference. Word Reference. Retrieved 23 June 2015.

[6] "Creación de municipios en Uruguay a partir de 2010". data.com.uy. 2009. Archived from the original on 14 August 2011. Retrieved 23 May 2011.

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hide v t Spanish terms for administrative divisions
National, Federal	Comunidad autónoma Departamento Distrito federal Estado Provincia Región
Regional, Metropolitan	Cantón Comarca Comuna Corregimiento Delegación Distrito Mancomunidad Merindad Municipalidad Municipio Parroquia Ecuador Spain
Urban, Rural	Aldea Alquería Anteiglesia Asentamiento Asentamiento informal Pueblos jóvenes Barrio Campamento Caserío Ciudad Ciudad autónoma Colonia Lugar Masía Población Ranchería Sitio Vereda Villa Village (Pueblito/Pueblo)
Historical subdivisions in italics.

Municipio

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