# Valera Municipality

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{{Infobox settlement
| name                    = Valera 
| native_name             = Municipio Valera
| native_name_lang        = es
| settlement_type         = [Municipality](/source/Municipalities_of_Venezuela)
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| image_flag              = Bandera del Municipio Valera.svg
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| image_map               = Venezuela - Trujillo - Valera.svg
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| map_caption             = Location of Valera Municipality within the state of [Trujillo](/source/Trujillo_(state))
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| subdivision_type        = Country
| subdivision_name        = [Venezuela](/source/Venezuela)
| subdivision_type1       = [State](/source/States_of_Venezuela)
| subdivision_name1       = [Trujillo](/source/Trujillo_(state))
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| leader_title            = Mayor
| leader_name             = Alfredy Moreno Silva ([PSUV](/source/Partido_Socialista_Unido_de_Venezuela))
| parts_type              = [Parish](/source/Parishes_of_Venezuela)
| unit_pref               = Metric
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| area_footnotes          = <ref name=2011Census/>
| area_total_km2          = 240
| population_as_of        = 2011
| population_footnotes    = <ref name=2011Census>{{cite web | url = http://www.ine.gov.ve/documentos/Demografia/CensodePoblacionyVivienda/pdf/trujillo.pdf | title = Results by federal entity and state municipalities: Trujillo | work = National census of population and housing 2011 | accessdate = December 13, 2018 | publisher = [National Institute of Statistics (Venezuela)](/source/National_Institute_of_Statistics_(Venezuela)) | archive-date = November 26, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211126045926/http://www.ine.gov.ve/documentos/Demografia/CensodePoblacionyVivienda/pdf/trujillo.pdf | url-status = dead }}</ref>
| population_total        = 250000
| population_density_km2  = auto
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| population_demonym      = Valerano
| timezone1               = [VET](/source/Venezuelan_Standard_Time_Zone)
| utc_offset1             = &minus;4
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| website                 = {{URL|www.municipiovalera.gov.ve/}}
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'''Valera''' is one of the twenty [municipalities](/source/Municipalities_of_Venezuela) in the [Venezuelan](/source/Venezuela) state of [Trujillo](/source/Trujillo_(state)).<ref name="DPT">{{cite web|url=http://www.ine.gov.ve/documentos/AspectosFisicos/DivisionpoliticoTerritorial/pdf/DPTconFinesEstadisticosOperativa2013.pdf|title=Territorial Political Division of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|publisher=[National Institute of Statistics (Venezuela)](/source/National_Institute_of_Statistics_(Venezuela))|accessdate=December 13, 2018|archive-date=December 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211040255/http://www.ine.gov.ve/documentos/AspectosFisicos/DivisionpoliticoTerritorial/pdf/DPTconFinesEstadisticosOperativa2013.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Its capital is the city of [Valera](/source/Valera). In the 2011 census, its population was 250,000.<ref name="2011Census" /> It has an area of {{Cvt|240|km2|}}, giving it a [population density](/source/population_density) of 567.2 inhabitants per km². 

The municipality contains six parishes, Juan Ignacio Montilla, La Beatriz, La Puerta, [Mendoza del Valle del Momboy](/source/Mendoza_del_Valle_del_Momboy), Mercedes Díaz and San Luis.

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Category:Municipalities of Trujillo (state)
Category:Valera

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