Crespo Municipality

The Crespo Municipality is one of the nine municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Lara and, as of the 2011 census, the municipality has a population of 49,958. The town of Duaca is the shire town of the Crespo Municipality.

Demographics
The Crespo Municipality, according to a 2011 population census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 49,958 (up from 42,432 in 2001). This amounts to 2.8% of the state's population. The municipality's population density is 56.93 PD/sqkm.

Government
The mayor of the Crespo Municipality is Miguel Valecillos Paul, re-elected on October 31, 2004, with 83% of the vote. The municipality is divided into two parishes; Fréitez and José María Blanco .