Urdaneta Municipality, Aragua

Urdaneta is one of the 18 municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Aragua and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 21,271. The town of Barbacoas is the shire town of the Urdaneta Municipality.

Name
The municipality is one of several in Venezuela named "Urdaneta Municipality" in honour of Venezuelan independence hero Rafael Urdaneta.

Demographics
The Urdaneta Municipality, according to a 2011 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 21,271 (up from 18,734	 in 2001). The municipality's population density is 10.51 PD/sqkm.

Government
The mayor of the Urdaneta Municipality is Sotero González, re-elected in 2021, with 49.41% of the vote, after the previous mayor Antonio Lugo deceased. The municipality is divided into four parishes; Capital Urdaneta, Las Peñitas, San Francisco de Cara, and Taguay.