Municipalities_of_Uruguay

Municipalities of Uruguay

Second-level administrative subdivision of Uruguay

The Uruguayan departments are subdivided into municipalities and, as of 2023, there are 127 municipalities. This second level administrative division system was created by Law No. 18567 of 13 September 2009 and the first municipalities were created (or converted from Local Boards in the previous system) in March 2010. In the municipal elections of 2010 municipal authorities were elected for the first time and they assumed office months later.

Each municipality is governed by a local council, made up of 5 members. The chairperson of the local council is known as alcalde (mayor) and the remaining members are the councilors.

The Montevideo, Canelones and Maldonado departments are completely covered by municipalities, while the other departments have areas not included in any municipality.

List of municipalities by department

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#	Municipality	Population	Area	Major ^[3]	Foundation ^[4]
1	Baltasar Brum	2,608	754.0 km²	Juan Marticorena (PN)	15 March 2010
2	Bella Unión	12,406	547.0 km²	William Cresseri (PN)	15 March 2010
3	Tomás Gomensoro	2,902	804.5 km²	Federico Arbiza (PN)	15 March 2010

#	Municipality	Population	Area	Major ^[3]	Foundation ^[4]
1	18 de Mayo	21,371	11.0 km²	Adriana Sánchez (FA)	20 March 2013
2	Aguas Corrientes	1,728	51.5 km²	Marcelo Delgado (FA)	15 March 2010
3	Atlántida	10,198	108.1 km²	Gustavo González (FA)	15 March 2010
4	Barros Blancos	29,865	22.8 km²	Julián Rocha (FA)	15 March 2010
5	Canelones	27,406	230.8 km²	Darío Pimienta (FA)	15 March 2010
6	Ciudad de la Costa	91,284	61.1 km²	Sonia Misirian (FA)	15 March 2010
7	Colonia Nicolich	14,788	26.0 km²	Líber Moreno (FA)	15 March 2010
8	Empalme Olmos	6,630	152.5 km²	Jorge Álvarez (FA)	15 March 2010
9	La Floresta	8,353	59.1 km²	Néstor Erramouspe (FA)	15 March 2010
10	La Paz	20,194	32.9 km²	Bruno Fernández (FA)	15 March 2010
11	Las Piedras	62,238	53.9 km²	Gustavo González (FA)	15 March 2010
12	Los Cerrillos	7,713	261.4 km²	Néstor Roncio (FA)	15 March 2010
13	Migues	3,802	363.3 km²	Nahuel Jorge (PN)	15 March 2010
14	Montes	1,842	55.5 km²	Rodolfo Salvarrey (PN)	15 March 2010
15	Pando	32,927	114.9 km²	Alcides Pérez (FA)	15 March 2010
16	Parque del Plata	11,054	12.8 km²	Tania Vecchio (FA)	15 March 2010
17	Paso Carrasco	20,842	20.7 km²	Verónica Veiga (FA)	15 March 2010
18	Progreso	14,292	78.5 km²	Claudio Duarte (FA)	15 March 2010
19	Salinas	23,447	83.7 km²	Óscar Montero (FA)	15 March 2010
20	San Antonio	3,283	168.6 km²	Damaso Pani (PN)	15 March 2010
21	San Bautista	3,684	196.5 km²	Roberto Siriani (PN)	15 March 2010
22	San Jacinto	6,691	274.9 km²	Cristian Ferraro (PN)	15 March 2010
23	San Ramón	8,087	249.3 km²	Gonzalo Melogno (PN)	15 March 2010
24	Santa Lucía	18,524	252.2 km²	Leonardo Mollo (FA)	15 March 2010
25	Santa Rosa	6,751	192.5 km²	Ramiro Azor (FA)	15 March 2010
26	Sauce	13,019	295.9 km²	Juan Ottonello (PN)	15 March 2010
27	Soca	3,959	493.1 km²	Roberto Rodríguez (PN)	15 March 2010
28	Suárez	18,153	44.0 km²	Carlos Nalerio (FA)	15 March 2010
29	Tala	9,308	522.1 km²	Leonardo Pérez (PN)	15 March 2010
30	Toledo	18,740	30.3 km²	José Gini (FA)	15 March 2010

#	Municipality	Population	Area	Major ^[3]	Foundation ^[4]^[5]^[6]
1	Aceguá	1,686	825.9 km²	Javier Rodríguez (PN)	22 March 2013
2	Arbolito	263	604.5 km²	Luis Seguí (PN)	22 March 2013
3	Arévalo	572	396.5 km²	José Eduardo Lucas (PN)	22 March 2013
4	Bañado de Medina	1,583	451.3 km²	Daniel Cegade (PN)	25 October 2018
5	Centurión	242	648.1 km²	Juan Nery dos Santos (PN)	25 October 2018
6	Cerro de las Cuentas	496	817.3 km²	Humberto Allende (PN)	25 October 2018
7	Fraile Muerto	3,450	407.1 km²	Pablo Nauar (PN)	15 March 2010
8	Isidoro Noblía	2,808	665.2 km²	Favio Freire (PN)	22 March 2013
9	Las Cañas	242	648.2 km²	Víctor Noda (PN)	25 October 2018
10	Plácido Rosas	602	524.8 km²	Eduardo Fernández (PN)	22 March 2013
11	Quebracho	497	701.2 km²	Héctor Ortiz (PN)	25 October 2018
12	Ramón Trigo	368	1,270.5 km²	Durmen Menchaca (PN)	22 March 2013
13	Río Branco	16,270	933.2 km²	Christian Morel (PN)	15 March 2010
14	Tres Islas	301	445.7 km²	Carlos González (PN)	25 October 2018
15	Tupambaé	1,269	1,110.1 km²	Macarena Da Rosa (PN)	22 March 2013

#	Municipality	Population	Area	Major ^[3]	Foundation
1	Carmelo	19,606	390.2 km²	Alicia Espíndola (PN)	15 March 2010
2	Colonia Valdense	4,535	147.4 km²	Andrés Malan (PN)	22 March 2013
3	Florencio Sánchez	4,040	295.6 km²	Alfredo Sánchez (PN)	22 March 2013
4	Juan L. Lacaze	13,635	107.3 km²	Arturo Bentancor (FA)	15 March 2010
5	La Paz	1,005	62 km²	Walter Eduardo Miranda	26 October 2018
6	Miguelete	1,814	720 km²	María Elena Martin (PN)	26 October 2018
7	Nueva Helvecia	11,224	95.1 km²	Marcelo Alonso (PN)	15 March 2010
8	Nueva Palmira	10,063	126.8 km²	Agustín Callero (PN)	15 March 2010
9	Ombúes de Lavalle	3,936	397.8 km²	Marcelo Castro (PN)	22 March 2013
10	Rosario	11,161	230.2 km²	Pablo Maciel (PN)	15 March 2010
11	Tarariras	7,788	484.4 km²	Dany Pérez (PN)	15 March 2010

#	Municipality	Population	Area	Major ^[3]	Foundation
	Sarandí del Yí	7,389	6,562 km²	Carlos Luberriga (PN)	15 March 2010
	Villa del Carmen	2,891	479.2 km²	Fernando Rodríguez (PN)	15 March 2010

Municipalities_of_Uruguay

Municipalities of Uruguay

Description

Establishment of the system and creation of municipalities

Election of authorities and government

List of municipalities by department

Artigas

Canelones

Cerro Largo

Colonia

Durazno

Flores

Florida

Lavalleja

Maldonado

Montevideo

Paysandú

Río Negro

Rivera

Rocha

Salto

San José

Soriano

Tacuarembó

Treinta y Tres

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#	Municipality	Population	Area	Major ^[3]	Foundation
1	Casupá	2,228	94.7 km²	Luis Oliva Monfort (PN)	15 March 2010
2	Fray Marcos	3,432	279.4 km²	Stella Tucuna (PN)	15 March 2013 ^[7]
3	Sarandí Grande	6,509	211.5 km²	Cayetano Stopingi (PN)	15 March 2010

#	Municipality	Population	Area	Major ^[3]	Foundation
1	José Batlle y Ordóñez	2,283	784.1 km²	Pablo Patiño (PN)	27 March 2015
2	José Pedro Varela	5,398	851.8 km²	Martín Rezk (PN)	15 March 2010
3	Mariscala	1,830	634 km²	Francisco de la Peña (PN)	24 October 2018
4	Solís de Mataojo	2,924	101.6 km²	Verónica Machado (PN)	15 March 2010

#	Municipality	Population	Area	Major ^[3]	Foundation
1	Aiguá	3,165	1,365.0 km²	Ernesto San Román (PN)	15 March 2010
2	Garzón	1,020	623.2 km²	Nazareno Lazo (PN)	15 March 2010
3	Maldonado	90,593	189.7 km²	Andrés Rapetti (PN)	15 March 2010
4	Pan de Azúcar	8,025	606.4 km²	Alejandro Echavarria (PN)	15 March 2010
5	Piriápolis	14,461	135.9 km²	René Graña (PN)	15 March 2010
6	Punta del Este	11,128	21.8 km²	Javier Carballal (PN)	15 March 2010
7	San Carlos	33,293	1,651.0 km²	Carlos Pereyra (PN)	15 March 2010
8	Solís Grande	2,613	204.9 km²	Patricia Martínez (PN)	15 March 2010

#	Municipality	Population	Area	Major ^[3]	Foundation
1	Municipality A	207,911	144.2 km²	Jorge Meroni (FA)	15 March 2010
2	Municipality B	147,577	11.8 km²	Silvana Pissano (FA)	15 March 2010
3	Municipality C	148,952	17.6 km²	Jorge Cabrera (FA)	15 March 2010
4	Municipality CH	159,528	12.1 km²	Matilde Antía (PN)	15 March 2010
5	Municipality D	181,153	86.5 km²	Gabriel Velazco (FA)	15 March 2010
6	Municipality E	153,395	27.5 km²	Mercedes Ruiz (PN)	15 March 2010
7	Municipality F	168,937	85.0 km²	Juan López (PN)	15 March 2010
8	Municipality G	151,302	142.7 km²	Leticia de Torres (FA)	15 March 2010

#	Municipality	Population	Area	Major	Foundation
1	Chapicuy	1,382	1,043.6 km²	Milton Laurencena (PN)	21 March 2013
2	Guichón	6,860	1,670.1 km²	Martín Álvarez (PN)	15 March 2010
3	Lorenzo Geyres	1,704	938.7 km²	Graciela Barrutte (PN)	21 March 2013
4	Piedras Coloradas	1,956	1,192.7 km²	Jhonn Cáceres (PN)	21 March 2013
5	Porvenir	4,178	954.5 km²	Ramiro Ayende (PN)	15 March 2010
6	Quebracho	3,671	1,088.4 km²	Silbia Visoso (PN)	15 March 2010
7	Tambores	1,475	2,388.0 km²	Ricardo Soares (PN)	21 March 2013

#	Municipality	Population	Area	Major	Foundation
1	Nuevo Berlín	2,604	498.7 km²	Hernán Godoy (PN)	15 March 2010
2	San Javier	2,830	817.8 km²	Washington Laco (PN)	22 March 2013
3	Young	17,550	1,039.8 km²	Inés Long (PN)	15 March 2010

#	Municipality	Population	Area	Major	Foundation
1	Minas de Corrales	3,985	381.7 km²	José González (PC)	15 March 2010
2	Tranqueras	8,190	976.6 km²	Luciano Viera (PC)	15 March 2010
3	Vichadero	4,048	510.5 km²	Luis Alberto Coutinho (PN)	15 March 2010

#	Municipality	Population	Area	Major	Foundation
1	Castillos	9,651	2,152.6 km²	Juan Manuel Olivera (PN)	15 March 2010
2	Chuy	9,758	92.8 km²	Eduardo Calabuig (PN)	15 March 2010
3	La Paloma	5,516	247.7 km²	Sergio Muniz (FA)	15 March 2010
4	Lascano	7,922	745.5 km²	Víctor Larrosa (PN)	15 March 2010

#	Municipality	Population	Area	Major ^[3]	Foundation
1	Belén	2,269	164.7 km²	Luis Zuliani (FA)	15 March 2010
2	Colonia Lavalleja	2,478	1,472.6 km²	Antonio Tejeira (PN)	15 March 2010
3	Mataojo	1,028	2,241.5 km²	Rosita Moreno (FA)	15 March 2010
4	San Antonio	3,865	430.8 km²	Sandra Toncobitz (PC)	15 March 2010
5	Rincón de Valentín	1,203	872.8 km²	Santiago Dalmao (FA)	15 March 2010
6	Villa Constitución	3,896	1,537.8 km²	Carlos Souto (FA)	15 March 2010

#	Municipality	Population	Area	Major ^[3]	Foundation
1	Ciudad del Plata	32,154	125.8 km²	Marianita Fonseca (PN)	15 March 2010
2	Ecilda Paullier	5,025	694.7 km²	Leonardo Giménez (PN)	22 March 2013
3	Libertad	14,326	441.9 km²	Matías Santos (PN)	15 March 2010
4	Rodríguez	4,849	1,167.3 km²	Norberto Zunino (PN)	22 March 2013

#	Municipality	Population	Area	Major ^[3]	Foundation
1	Cardona	5,029	356.1 km²	Ruben Valentín (PN)	15 March 2010
2	Dolores	19,577	413.7 km²	Juan Oronoz (PN)	15 March 2010
3	José Enrique Rodó	3,077	396.3 km²	Washington Loitey (PN)	27 March 2015
4	Palmitas	2,304	178.7 km²	Juan Vincon (PN)	27 March 2015

#	Municipality	Population	Area	Major ^[3]	Foundation
1	Ansina	3,289	792.2 km²	Ana Isabel Camejo (PN)	27 March 2015
2	Paso de los Toros	13,232	560.3 km²	Luis Irigoin (PN)	15 March 2010
3	San Gregorio de Polanco	3,722	444.7 km²	Asdrúbal Rodríguez (PN)	15 March 2010

#	Municipality	Population	Area	Major ^[3]	Foundation
1	Cerro Chato	1,407	km²	Elías Javier Fuentes (PN)	22 December 2017
2	Enrique Martínez	1,246	km²	Nidia Vera (PN)	22 December 2017
3	Rincón	1,767	km²	Eduardo Gonzales (PN)	22 December 2017
4	Santa Clara de Olimar	2,485	482.4 km²	Pablo Echevarría (PN)	15 March 2010
5	Vergara	4,064	622.5 km²	José González (PN)	15 March 2010
6	Villa Sara	1,724	534 km²	Analía Larrañaga (PN)	22 December 2017