The Libertador Municipality is one of the 23 municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Mérida and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 232,011.http://www.ine.gob.ve/sintesisestadistica/estados/merida/cuadros/Poblacion6.xls The city of Mérida is the shire town of the Libertador Municipality.http://www.ine.gob.ve/secciones/division/Merida.zip The municipality is one of a number in Venezuela named "Libertador Municipality", in honour of Venezuelan independence hero Simón Bolívar.
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External links libertador-merida.gob.ve