Subdivisions of Venezuela: states, capitals and the 335 municipalities
Venezuela is divided into 23 states, the Capital District and the Federal Dependencies, and below them into 335 municipalities. This list gives each state with its capital and ISO 3166-2 code and, state by state, every municipio in Spanish with its seat, under today's name La Guaira for the former Vargas.
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Municipality names and their seats
Each municipality carries a name that is often not the name of its main town. Many honour people of the independence era or the nineteenth century: Girardot, Mariño, Sotillo, Urdaneta, Páez. The seat then appears in brackets, so Girardot in Aragua is run from Maracay and Sucre in Miranda from Petare. Where only one name is given, the municipality and its seat share it, as Maturín or Valencia do.
The same honorific names recur from state to state. Bolívar, Sucre, Miranda, Libertador and Andrés Bello turn up in several states each, and only the seat tells them apart: Libertador is Caracas in the Capital District, Mérida in Mérida, Tocuyito in Carabobo and Palo Negro in Aragua.
States of Venezuela with capitals and ISO 3166-2 codes
The 23 states (estados), the Capital District and the Federal Dependencies, the islands in the Caribbean Sea, with the capital of each, the number of municipalities and the ISO 3166-2 code. The state called Vargas in the list has been La Guaira since 2019.
- spa Spanish
States and districts 25
| State | Capital | Municipalities | ISO 3166-2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Distrito Capital
|
Caracas
|
1 |
VE-A
|
Estado Anzoátegui
|
Barcelona
|
21 |
VE-B
|
Estado Apure
|
San Fernando de Apure
|
7 |
VE-C
|
Estado Aragua
|
Maracay
|
18 |
VE-D
|
Estado Barinas
|
Barinas
|
12 |
VE-E
|
Estado Bolívar
|
Ciudad Bolívar
|
11 |
VE-F
|
Estado Carabobo
|
Valencia
|
14 |
VE-G
|
Estado Cojedes
|
San Carlos
|
9 |
VE-H
|
Estado Falcón
|
Coro
|
25 |
VE-I
|
Estado Guárico
|
San Juan de Los Morros
|
15 |
VE-J
|
Estado Lara
|
Barquisimeto
|
9 |
VE-K
|
Estado Mérida
|
Mérida
|
23 |
VE-L
|
Estado Miranda
|
Los Teques
|
21 |
VE-M
|
Estado Monagas
|
Maturín
|
13 |
VE-N
|
Estado Nueva Esparta
|
La Asunción
|
11 |
VE-O
|
Estado Portuguesa
|
Guanare
|
14 |
VE-P
|
Estado Sucre
|
Cumaná
|
15 |
VE-R
|
Estado Táchira
|
San Cristóbal
|
29 |
VE-S
|
Estado Trujillo
|
Trujillo
|
20 |
VE-T
|
Estado Yaracuy
|
San Felipe
|
14 |
VE-U
|
Estado Zulia
|
Maracaibo
|
21 |
VE-V
|
Estado La GuairaEstado Vargas until 2019
|
La Guaira
|
1 |
VE-X
|
Estado Delta Amacuro
|
Tucupita
|
4 |
VE-Y
|
Estado Amazonas
|
Puerto Ayacucho
|
7 |
VE-Z
|
Dependencias Federales
|
no capital
|
none |
VE-W
|
Codes: ISO 3166-2:VE on the ISO Online Browsing Platform, as tabulated in Wikipedia's ISO 3166-2:VE, checked 28 October 2026; ISO renamed VE-X from Vargas to La Guaira on 24 November 2020.
The 335 municipalities of Venezuela by state
Every municipio with the town that seats it. Where the list gives no separate seat, the municipality is named after its seat and the town is repeated.
- spa Spanish
Amazonas 7
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Alto Orinoco
|
La Esmeralda
|
Atabapo
|
San Fernando de Atabapo
|
Atures
|
Puerto Ayacucho
|
Autana
|
Isla de Ratón
|
Manapiare
|
San Juan de Manapiare
|
Maroa
|
Maroa
|
Río Negro
|
San Carlos de Río Negro
|
Anzoátegui 21
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Anaco
|
Anaco
|
Aragua
|
Aragua de Barcelona
|
Diego Bautista Urbaneja
|
Lechería
|
Fernando de Peñalver
|
Puerto Píritu
|
Francisco del Carmen Carvajal
|
Valle de Guanape
|
Francisco de Miranda
|
Pariaguán
|
Guanta
|
Guanta
|
Independencia
|
Soledad
|
José Gregorio Monagas
|
Mapire
|
Juan Antonio Sotillo
|
Puerto La Cruz
|
Juan Manuel Cajigal
|
Onoto
|
Libertad
|
San Mateo
|
Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual
|
Clarines
|
Pedro María Freites
|
Cantaura
|
Píritu
|
Píritu
|
San José de Guanipa
|
San José de Guanipa
|
San Juan de Capistrano
|
Boca de Uchire
|
Santa Ana
|
Santa Ana
|
Simón Bolívar
|
Barcelona
|
Simón Rodríguez
|
El Tigre
|
Sir Arthur McGregor
|
El Chaparro
|
Apure 7
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Achaguas
|
Achaguas
|
Biruaca
|
Biruaca
|
Muñoz
|
Bruzual
|
Páez
|
Guasdualito
|
Pedro Camejo
|
San Juan de Payara
|
Rómulo Gallegos
|
Elorza
|
San Fernando
|
San Fernando de Apure
|
Aragua 18
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Bolívar
|
San Mateo
|
Camatagua
|
Camatagua
|
Francisco Linares Alcántara
|
Santa Rita
|
Girardot
|
Maracay
|
José Ángel Lamas
|
Santa Cruz
|
José Félix Ribas
|
La Victoria
|
José Rafael Revenga
|
El Consejo
|
Libertador
|
Palo Negro
|
Mario Briceño Iragorry
|
El Limón
|
Ocumare de la Costa de Oro
|
Ocumare de la Costa
|
San Casimiro
|
San Casimiro
|
San Sebastián
|
San Sebastián
|
Santiago Mariño
|
Turmero
|
Santos Michelena
|
Las Tejerías
|
Sucre
|
Cagua
|
Tovar
|
Colonia Tovar
|
Urdaneta
|
Barbacoas
|
Zamora
|
Villa de Cura
|
Barinas 12
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Alberto Arvelo Torrealba
|
Sabaneta
|
Andrés Eloy Blanco
|
El Cantón
|
Antonio José de Sucre
|
Socopó
|
Arismendi
|
Arismendi
|
Barinas
|
Barinas
|
Bolívar
|
Barinitas
|
Cruz Paredes
|
Barrancas
|
Ezequiel Zamora
|
Santa Bárbara
|
Obispos
|
Obispos
|
Pedraza
|
Ciudad Bolivia
|
Rojas
|
Libertad
|
Sosa
|
Ciudad de Nutrias
|
Bolívar 11
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Caroní
|
Ciudad Guayana
|
Cedeño
|
Caicara del Orinoco
|
El Callao
|
El Callao
|
Gran Sabana
|
Santa Elena de Uairén
|
Heres
|
Ciudad Bolívar
|
Padre Pedro Chien
|
El Palmar
|
Piar
|
Upata
|
Raúl Leoni
|
Ciudad Piar
|
Roscio
|
Guasipati
|
Sifontes
|
Tumeremo
|
Sucre
|
Maripa
|
Carabobo 14
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Bejuma
|
Bejuma
|
Carlos Arvelo
|
Güigüe
|
Diego Ibarra
|
Mariara
|
Guacara
|
Guacara
|
Juan José Mora
|
Morón
|
Libertador
|
Tocuyito
|
Los Guayos
|
Los Guayos
|
Miranda
|
Miranda
|
Montalbán
|
Montalbán
|
Naguanagua
|
Naguanagua
|
Puerto Cabello
|
Puerto Cabello
|
San Diego
|
San Diego
|
San Joaquín
|
San Joaquín
|
Valencia
|
Valencia
|
Cojedes 9
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Anzoátegui
|
Cojedes
|
Falcón
|
Tinaquillo
|
Girardot
|
El Baúl
|
Lima Blanco
|
Macapo
|
Pao de San Juan Bautista
|
El Pao
|
Ricaurte
|
Libertad
|
Rómulo Gallegos
|
Las Vegas
|
San Carlos
|
San Carlos
|
Tinaco
|
Tinaco
|
Delta Amacuro 4
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Antonio Díaz
|
Curiapo
|
Casacoima
|
Sierra Imataca
|
Pedernales
|
Pedernales
|
Tucupita
|
Tucupita
|
Distrito Capital 1
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Libertador
|
Caracas
|
Falcón 25
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Acosta
|
San Juan de los Cayos
|
Bolívar
|
San Luis
|
Buchivacoa
|
Capatárida
|
Cacique Manaure
|
Yaracal
|
Carirubana
|
Punto Fijo
|
Colina
|
La Vela de Coro
|
Dabajuro
|
Dabajuro
|
Democracia
|
Pedregal
|
Falcón
|
Pueblo Nuevo
|
Federación
|
Churuguara
|
Jacura
|
Jacura
|
Los Taques
|
Santa Cruz de Los Taques
|
Mauroa
|
Mene de Mauroa
|
Miranda
|
Santa Ana de Coro
|
Monseñor Iturriza
|
Chichiriviche
|
Palma Sola
|
Palma Sola
|
Petit
|
Cabure
|
Píritu
|
Píritu
|
San Francisco
|
Mirimire
|
Silva
|
Tucacas
|
Sucre
|
La Cruz de Taratara
|
Tocopero
|
Tocopero
|
Unión
|
Santa Cruz de Bucaral
|
Urumaco
|
Urumaco
|
Zamora
|
Puerto Cumarebo
|
Guárico 15
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Camaguán
|
Camaguán
|
Chaguaramas
|
Chaguaramas
|
El Socorro
|
El Socorro
|
Francisco de Miranda
|
Calabozo
|
José Félix Ribas
|
Tucupido
|
José Tadeo Monagas
|
Altagracia de Orituco
|
Juan Germán Roscio
|
San Juan de Los Morros
|
Julián Mellado
|
El Sombrero
|
Las Mercedes
|
Las Mercedes
|
Leonardo Infante
|
Valle de La Pascua
|
Ortiz
|
Ortiz
|
Pedro Zaraza
|
Zaraza
|
San Gerónimo de Guayabal
|
Guayabal
|
San José de Guaribe
|
San José de Guaribe
|
Santa María de Ipire
|
Santa María de Ipire
|
Lara 9
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Andrés Eloy Blanco
|
Sanare
|
Crespo
|
Duaca
|
Iribarren
|
Barquisimeto
|
Jiménez
|
Quibor
|
Morán
|
El Tocuyo
|
Palavecino
|
Cabudare
|
Simón Planas
|
Sarare
|
Torres
|
Carora
|
Urdaneta
|
Siquisique
|
Mérida 23
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Alberto Adriani
|
El Vigía
|
Andrés Bello
|
La Azulita
|
Antonio Pinto Salinas
|
Santa Cruz de Mora
|
Aricagua
|
Aricagua
|
Arzobispo Chacón
|
Canaguá
|
Campo Elías
|
Ejido
|
Caracciolo Parra Olmedo
|
Tucaní
|
Cardenal Quintero
|
Santo Domingo
|
Guaraque
|
Guaraque
|
Julio César Salas
|
Arapuey
|
Justo Briceño
|
Torondoy
|
Libertador
|
Mérida
|
Miranda
|
Timotes
|
Obispo Ramos de Lora
|
Santa Elena de Arenales
|
Padre Noguera
|
Santa María de Caparo
|
Pueblo Llano
|
Pueblo Llano
|
Rangel
|
Mucuchíes
|
Rivas Dávila
|
Bailadores
|
Santos Marquina
|
Tabay
|
Sucre
|
Lagunillas
|
Tovar
|
Tovar
|
Tulio Febres Cordero
|
Nueva Bolivia
|
Zea
|
Zea
|
Miranda 21
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Acevedo
|
Caucagua
|
Andrés Bello
|
San José de Barlovento
|
Baruta
|
Nuestra Señora del Rosario
|
Brión
|
Higuerote
|
Buroz
|
Mamporal
|
Carrizal
|
Carrizal
|
Chacao
|
Chacao
|
Cristóbal Rojas
|
Charallave
|
El Hatillo
|
El Hatillo
|
Guaicaipuro
|
Los Teques
|
Independencia
|
Santa Teresa del Tuy
|
Lander
|
Ocumare del Tuy
|
Los Salias
|
San Antonio de los Altos
|
Páez
|
Río Chico
|
Paz Castillo
|
Santa Lucía
|
Pedro Gual
|
Cúpira
|
Plaza
|
Guarenas
|
Simón Bolívar
|
San Francisco de Yare
|
Sucre
|
Petare
|
Urdaneta
|
Cúa
|
Zamora
|
Guatire
|
Monagas 13
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Acosta
|
San Antonio de Capayacuar
|
Aguasay
|
Aguasay
|
Bolívar
|
Caripito
|
Caripe
|
Caripe
|
Cedeño
|
Caicara
|
Ezequiel Zamora
|
Punta de Mata
|
Libertador
|
Temblador
|
Maturín
|
Maturín
|
Piar
|
Aragua
|
Punceres
|
Quiriquire
|
Santa Bárbara
|
Santa Bárbara
|
Sotillo
|
Barrancas del Orinoco
|
Uracoa
|
Uracoa
|
Nueva Esparta 11
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Antolín del Campo
|
La Plaza de Paraguachí
|
Arismendi
|
La Asunción
|
Díaz
|
San Juan Bautista
|
García
|
El Valle del Espíritu Santo
|
Gómez
|
Santa Ana
|
Maneiro
|
Pampatar
|
Marcano
|
Juan Griego
|
Mariño
|
Porlamar
|
Península de Macanao
|
Boca de Río
|
Tubores
|
Punta de Piedras
|
Villalba
|
San Pedro de Coche
|
Portuguesa 14
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Agua Blanca
|
Agua Blanca
|
Araure
|
Araure
|
Esteller
|
Píritu
|
Guanare
|
Guanare
|
Guanarito
|
Guanarito
|
Monseñor José Vicente de Unda
|
Paraíso de Chabasquén
|
Ospino
|
Ospino
|
Páez
|
Acarigua
|
Papelón
|
Papelón
|
San Genaro de Boconoíto
|
Boconoíto
|
San Rafael de Onoto
|
San Rafael de Onoto
|
Santa Rosalía
|
El Playón
|
Sucre
|
Biscucuy
|
Turén
|
Villa Bruzual
|
Sucre 15
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Andrés Eloy Blanco
|
Casanay
|
Andrés Mata
|
San José de Aerocuar
|
Arismendi
|
Río Caribe
|
Benítez
|
El Pilar
|
Bermúdez
|
Carúpano
|
Bolívar
|
Marigüitar
|
Cajigal
|
Yaguaraparo
|
Cruz Salmerón Acosta
|
Araya
|
Libertador
|
Tunapuy
|
Mariño
|
Irapa
|
Mejía
|
San Antonio del Golfo
|
Montes
|
Cumanacoa
|
Ribero
|
Cariaco
|
Sucre
|
Cumaná
|
Valdez
|
Güiria
|
Táchira 29
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Andrés Bello
|
Cordero
|
Antonio Rómulo Costa
|
Las Mesas
|
Ayacucho
|
Colón
|
Bolívar
|
San Antonio del Táchira
|
Cárdenas
|
Táriba
|
Córdoba
|
Santa Ana de Táchira
|
Fernández Feo
|
San Rafael del Piñal
|
Francisco de Miranda
|
San José de Bolívar
|
García de Hevia
|
La Fría
|
Guásimos
|
Palmira
|
Independencia
|
Capacho Nuevo
|
Jáuregui
|
La Grita
|
José María Vargas
|
El Cobre
|
Junín
|
Rubio
|
Libertad
|
Capacho Viejo
|
Libertador
|
Abejales
|
Lobatera
|
Lobatera
|
Michelena
|
Michelena
|
Panamericano
|
Coloncito
|
Pedro María Ureña
|
Ureña
|
Rafael Urdaneta
|
Delicias
|
Samuel Darío Maldonado
|
La Tendida
|
San Cristóbal
|
San Cristóbal
|
San Judas Tadeo
|
Umoquena
|
Seboruco
|
Seboruco
|
Simón Rodríguez
|
San Simón
|
Sucre
|
Queniquea
|
Torbes
|
San Josecito
|
Uribante
|
Pregonero
|
Trujillo 20
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Andrés Bello
|
Santa Isabel
|
Boconó
|
Boconó
|
Bolívar
|
Sabana Grande
|
Candelaria
|
Chejendé
|
Carache
|
Carache
|
Escuque
|
Escuque
|
José Felipe Márquez Cañizalez
|
El Paradero
|
Juan Vicente Campos Elías
|
Campo Elías
|
La Ceiba
|
Santa Apolonia
|
Miranda
|
El Dividive
|
Monte Carmelo
|
Monte Carmelo
|
Motatán
|
Motatán
|
Pampán
|
Pampán
|
Pampanito
|
Pampanito
|
Rafael Rangel
|
Betijoque
|
San Rafael de Carvajal
|
Carvajal
|
Sucre
|
Sabana de Mendoza
|
Trujillo
|
Trujillo
|
Urdaneta
|
La Quebrada
|
Valera
|
Valera
|
La Guaira (Vargas) 1
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Vargas
|
La Guaira
|
Yaracuy 14
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Arístides Bastidas
|
San Pablo
|
Bolívar
|
Aroa
|
Bruzual
|
Chivacoa
|
Cocorote
|
Cocorote
|
Independencia
|
Independencia
|
José Antonio Páez
|
Sabana de Parra
|
La Trinidad
|
Boraure
|
Manuel Monge
|
Yumare
|
Nirgua
|
Nirgua
|
Peña
|
Yaritagua
|
San Felipe
|
San Felipe
|
Sucre
|
Guama
|
Urachiche
|
Urachiche
|
Veroes
|
Farriar
|
Zulia 21
| Municipality | Seat |
|---|---|
Almirante Padilla
|
El Toro
|
Baralt
|
San Timoteo
|
Cabimas
|
Cabimas
|
Catatumbo
|
Encontrados
|
Colón
|
San Carlos del Zulia
|
Francisco Javier Pulgar
|
Pueblo Nuevo-El Chivo
|
Jesús Enrique Losada
|
La Concepción
|
Jesús María Semprún
|
Casigua El Cubo
|
La Cañada de Urdaneta
|
Concepción
|
Lagunillas
|
Ciudad Ojeda
|
Machiques de Perijá
|
Machiques
|
Mara
|
San Rafael del Moján
|
Maracaibo
|
Maracaibo
|
Miranda
|
Los Puertos de Altagracia
|
Páez
|
Sinamaica
|
Rosario de Perijá
|
La Villa del Rosario
|
San Francisco
|
San Francisco
|
Santa Rita
|
Santa Rita
|
Simón Bolívar
|
Tía Juana
|
Sucre
|
Bobures
|
Valmore Rodríguez
|
Bachaquero
|
Municipalities and seats as in the list; Barrancas del Orinoco (Sotillo, Monagas) corrected from a misspelling. The total of 335 matches Wikipedia's Municipalities of Venezuela, checked 28 October 2026.
From Vargas to La Guaira, and the claimed state
The state count has not changed since this list was compiled, but one name has. Vargas, the coastal state north of Caracas, became Estado La Guaira on 14 June 2019, and ISO followed on 24 November 2020; the code VE-X stayed. Its single municipality is still called Vargas and is seated at La Guaira, so the state now shares the name of its capital.
Táchira has the most municipalities, 29, followed by Falcón with 25 and Mérida with 23. The Capital District and La Guaira consist of one municipality each. The Federal Dependencies, the islands in the Caribbean Sea, have no municipality and no capital in the list.
Since 2024 Venezuela also counts a state of Guayana Esequiba, covering territory that Guyana administers and Venezuela claims. ISO 3166-2:VE does not list it, and neither does this table.
Questions about the states and municipalities of Venezuela
How many states does Venezuela have?
23, plus the Capital District (Caracas) and the Federal Dependencies. ISO 3166-2:VE gives all 25 a code.
How many municipalities does Venezuela have?
335. Táchira has 29, the Capital District and La Guaira one each.
What happened to Vargas state?
It was renamed La Guaira in June 2019. The ISO code VE-X did not change, and its one municipality is still named Vargas.