[1] The city of Carúpano is the administrative centre for the Bermúdez Municipality.

[2] The municipality was named for Venezuelan independence hero José Francisco Bermúdez.

It was somewhere on the Paria Peninsula, near Carúpano, where Christopher Columbus first set foot on the American continent for the only time, during his third voyage (in all his other trips he only explored the Caribbean islands).

[3] The municipality's population density is 820 inhabitants per square kilometre (2,100/sq mi).

Carlos Monasterio was installed in 1990 and had served eighteen months when the court (Supreme Electoral Council) removed him, and established Juan Marquez Albornoz as the actual winner of the election.