The Cardenal Quintero Municipality is one of the 23 municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Mérida and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 9,546.

[1] The town of Santo Domingo is the administrative centre of the Cardenal Quintero Municipality.

[3] The municipality's population density is 27.3 inhabitants per square kilometre (71/sq mi).

[4] The mayor of the Cardenal Quintero Municipality is Pedro Segundo Rivas Moreno, re-elected on October 31, 2004, with 89% of the vote.

[5][6] The municipality is divided into two parishes; Capital Cardenal Quintero and Las Piedras.