Municipality of Maldonado explained

Municipality of Maldonado
Official Name:	Municipality of Maldonado
Native Name:	Municipio de Maldonado
Native Name Lang:	es
Settlement Type:	Municipality
Mapsize:	250px
Map Alt:	Map of the Municipality of Maldonado
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Uruguay
Subdivision Type1:	Department
Subdivision Name1:	Maldonado
Established Title:	Founded
Established Date:	15 March 2010
Seat Type:	Seat
Seat:	Maldonado
Unit Pref:	Metric
Population Total:	105000
Population As Of:	2011
Population Density Km2:	auto
Area Total Km2:	192
Leader Title:	Mayor
Leader Name:	Dina Fernández Chaves (PN)
Timezone1:	UTC-3
Postal Code Type:	Postal code
Postal Code:	20000, 20003, 20005
Blank Name Sec1:	Constituencies
Blank Info Sec1:	DAA, DAC, DAD, DAE, DAF, DAG, DAH, DAI and DAJ.
Website:	http://www.maldonado.gub.uy/?mi=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.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Municipality of Maldonado".

Mayors by period
- ! N°	Mayor	Party	Start	End	Notes	-	1	Juan Carlos Bayeto	Broad Front	9 July 2010	8 July 2015	Elected Mayor Councilors: María Cristina Olivera (FA), Lucía Dotti (FA), Jesús Bentancur (PN) and Héctor Adolfo Varela (PN).	-	2	Dina Fernández Chaves	National Party	9 July 2015	2020	Elected Mayor Councilors: Gualberto Hernández (PN), Mario Scasso Burghi (PN), Luis Huelmo (FA) and Mario Alfaro Mendoza (FA).