Municipalities of Bolivia

Municipalities in Bolivia (Spanish: municipios) are administrative divisions of the entire national territory governed by local elections.

Municipalities are the third level of administrative divisions, below departments and provinces.

Municipalities in Bolivia are each led by a mayor, an executive office.

[1] Local elections were held under the 1942 municipal code, which was in force until 1991.

As an effect of decentralization through the 1994 Law of Popular Participation the number of municipalities in Bolivia has risen from an initial twenty-four (in 1994) to 327 (in 2005), to 337 (at the time of the 2010 elections),[3][4] to 339 (as of August 2010[update]).