Municipalities of Brazil

Recent elections The municipalities of Brazil (Portuguese: municípios do Brasil) are administrative divisions of the Brazilian states.

These regions are directly managed by the government of the Federal District, which exercises constitutional and legal powers that are equivalent to those of the states, as well as those of the municipalities, thus simultaneously assuming all the obligations arising from them.

Each municipality has the constitutional power to approve its own laws, as well as collecting taxes and receiving funds from the state and federal governments.

The seat of the municipal administration is a nominated city (cidade), with no specification in the law about the minimum population, area or facilities.

[2] However, these must abide by the Brazilian Constitution, and forming exclaves or seceding from the state or union is expressly forbidden.