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Departments are formed by a grouping of municipalities (Spanish: municipios, sing. municipio).Municipal government is composed by a mayor (alcalde) and a Municipal Council (concejo municipal), both of them elected by popular vote for a four-year period or more.
Colombia is a unitary republic made up of thirty-two administrative divisions referred to as departments (Spanish: departamentos, sing. departamento) and one Capital District (Distrito Capital). [1] Each department has a governor (gobernador) and an Assembly (Asamblea Departamental), elected by popular vote for a four-year period. The governor ...
Laredo (/ l ə ˈ r eɪ d oʊ / lə-RAY-doh; Spanish:) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and seat of Webb County, on the north bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, across from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Trazado de los bordes del mapa basado en los mapas de Demis (ver licencia aquí) y OpenStreetMap (ver licencia aquí. Trazado de los límites departamentales y municipales, así como la localización de sus respectivas capitales, obtenidos de los mapas ubicados en este mapa de commons .
This is a list of Colombian departments by population according to a general census taken in 2018, the 2005 census, and by estimates for 2020 made by the National Administrative Department of Statistics (Spanish: Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística). The five most populous departments contain almost half of the total population.
According to Law 1617 of 2013, [1] for the creation of new districts, the following conditions must be met: They must have more than 600 thousand inhabitants, according to DANE certification , or be located in coastal areas, as long as they have potential for the development of ports or for tourism and culture; that is, they are the capital municipality of a border department.
Retail sales also helps the Laredo–Nuevo Laredo economy, it attracts shoppers from Northern Mexico and South Texas. [16] The major mall is Mall del Norte . The Streets of Laredo Urban Mall is an association created by businesses located in Iturbide Street in the San Agustin historical district to beautify and renovate the area.
The Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos (Owls of the Two Laredos) are a team in the Mexican Baseball League who split their games between Nuevo Laredo and Laredo, Texas. [30] The Tecolotes were the Mexican League Champions in 1953, 1954, 1958, 1977, and 1989 and runner-ups in 1945, 1955, 1959, 1985, 1987, 1992, 1993.