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17-564: Coristanco is a municipality in the province of A Coruña , in the autonomous community of Galicia , northwestern Spain . It belongs to the comarca of Bergantiños . 43°12′N 8°45′W  /  43.200°N 8.750°W  / 43.200; -8.750 This article about a location in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Municipalities of Spain Although provinces are groupings of municipalities , there

34-492: A low number of inhabitants. The area of the municipal territory (Spanish: término municipal ) usually ranges 2–40 km , but some municipalities span across a much larger area, up to the 1,750.33 km of Cáceres ', the largest municipality in the country. The average land area of a Spanish municipality is about 62.23 km (24.03 sq mi), while the average population is about 5,988 people. Municipalities were first created by decree on 23 May 1812 as part of

51-412: A term often also used to refer to the municipal headquarters (city/town hall). The ayuntamiento is composed of the mayor (Spanish: alcalde ), the deputy mayors (Spanish: tenientes de alcalde ) and the deliberative assembly ( pleno ) of councillors ( concejales ). Another form of local government used in small municipalities is the concejo abierto (open council), in which the deliberative assembly

68-483: Is extended to Spanish citizens living abroad. A Spaniard abroad, upon registering in a consulate , has the right to vote in the local elections of the last municipality they resided in. A Spanish citizen born abroad must choose between the last municipality his or her mother or father last lived in. As of 2022, there were a total of 8,131 municipalities in Spain, including the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla . In

85-463: Is facilitated if the municipality has jurisdiction over the surrounding rural area (as in the system of adjacent ejidos or the mixed system). The provincial division into municipal ejidos coexists with the division into second level entities called departments in 22 provinces and partidos in the province of Buenos Aires. This territorial element is often empty of content, since there is no equivalent institutional body or it has no effective power in

102-451: Is formed by all the electors in the municipality. The operation of the municipalities is broadly outlined by the 1985 Local Government Act. The Statutes of Autonomy of the various autonomous communities also contain provisions and many sectorial laws from national and autonomous community government determine the functions and powers of ayuntamientos. In general, municipalities enjoy a large degree of autonomy in their local affairs: many of

119-429: Is no implied hierarchy or primacy of one over the other. Instead the two entities are defined according to the authority or jurisdiction of each ( Spanish : competencias ). Some autonomous communities also group municipalities into entities known as comarcas (districts) or mancomunidades (commonwealths). The governing body in most municipalities is called ayuntamiento ( municipal council or corporation ),

136-498: Is the territory in which the municipality exercises its competences. Each Spanish province is defined as the territorial grouping of its municipalities. Practically the entire national territory is divided into municipalities. There are currently 8131 municipalities in Spain. The extension of a municipality, according to the National Statistics Institute , is the extension of its municipal area. Within

153-689: Is the territory over which the administrative action of a local government (city council or municipality ) extends. A municipal territory (in Spanish: término municipal, T.M.), in Spain , is the territory, perfectly delimited, of a municipality; the territory to which the administrative action of a city council extends. Law 7/1985, of April 2, 1985, Regulating the Bases of the Local Regime, in its Article 12.1 defines it as follows: The municipal district

170-492: The Principality of Asturias , municipalities are officially named concejos (councils). The average population of a municipality is about 5,300, but this figure masks a huge range: the most populous Spanish municipality is the city of Madrid , with a population of 3,305,408 (2022) , while several rural municipalities have fewer than ten inhabitants ( Illán de Vacas , had a population of three in 2022 ). Almost 40% of

187-427: The viceroyalty , they were public spaces at the exit of the urban layout. They were first administered by the cabildo , then by the provincial treasury and, from 1857, by the newly formed municipality . In the last decades of the 19th century, they were privatized. The general guidelines for the division of the territory of the provinces and the establishment of the limits of the municipalities are established in

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204-472: The Spanish population resides in just 62 municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants. 84% (6,817) of municipalities have less than 5,000 inhabitants. Castile and León alone account for 28% of municipalities but they constitute less than 6% of the population of Spain. A European report said that one of the most important problems facing local governments in Spain is the very high number of little towns with

221-410: The dispersed rural population or small towns, the system of neighboring ejidos has the possibility of integrating and attending to them from the municipal level. The mixed system does so with the population of its closest surroundings. On the other hand, these systems subordinate these localities even when they have reached the conditions to become a municipality. With respect to territorial planning, this

238-495: The functions of the comarcas and provinces are municipal powers pooled together. All citizens of Spain are required to register in the municipality they live in, and after doing so, they are juridically considered "neighbors" (residents) of the municipality, a designation that grants them various rights and privileges, and which entail certain obligations as well, including the right to vote or be elected for public office in said municipality. The right to vote in municipal elections

255-638: The liberal reforms associated with the new Spanish Constitution of 1812 and based on similar actions in revolutionary France. The idea was to rationalise and homogenise territorial organisation, do away with the prior feudal system and provide equality before the law of all citizens. Between 1812 and 1931, the legislation regarding municipal organisation was changed more than 20 times, and there were 20 addition and unsuccessful proposals for change. Municipal territory Municipal territory (in Spanish : término municipal ), ejido or municipal radius

272-507: The municipal area there may be one or several singular population entities . One of these, where the town hall is located, is the capital of the municipality. The singular entities can be grouped into collective population entities, which receive different names depending on the area: parishes , pedanías , elizates , etc. The municipal territory in Argentina is called ejido or municipal radius and in its origin, which dates back to

289-485: The provincial constitutions and the definitive establishment of limits is delegated to the Legislative Power. There are various systems for the territorial determination of the municipality: Each system has advantages and disadvantages. The urban ejido system is in line with the traditional concept of municipality, in charge of city affairs and with a direct management with own neighbors. With respect to

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