Municipality of Maldonado

The Municipality of Maldonado is one of the eight municipalities of Maldonado Department, Uruguay. It was created by Law N° 18653 of 15 March 2010.

Location

The municipality is located at the south area of the department, and it has a total area of 192 km² (a 4.01% of the department area) and a population of around 105000 inhabitants (55.12% of the department population).

Limits

According to the Decree of the Departmental Board of Maldonado N° 3862 of 11 February 2010, the territorial jurisdiction of the municipality was established as follows:

Settlements

The following populated places are part of this municipality:

• Abra de Perdomo
• Barrio Hipódromo
• Canteras de Marelli
• Cerro Pelado
• Chihuahua
• Laguna del Diario
• Laguna del Sauce
• Las Cumbres
• Los Ceibos
• Los Corchos
• Maldonado
• Pinares-Las Delicias
• Portezuelo
• Punta Ballena

Constituencies

According to the Decree of the Departmental Board of Maldonado N° 3909 of 2 December 2004, the following electoral series and constituencies were ordered:

• DAA: Centro
• DAC: Los Ceibos
• DAD: Punta Ballena
• DAE: Pinares
• DAF: Cerro Pelado
• DAG: Hipódromo
• DAH: Maldonado Nuevo
• DAI: El Jagüel
• DAJ: Las Delicias

Authorities

The authority of the municipality is the Municipal Council, integrated by the Mayor (who presides it) and four Councilors.

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