Federal Territories of Venezuela

The Federal Territories (Spanish: Territorios Federales) is a special political division in the territory of Venezuela. Their existence is provided for in Article 16 of the National Constitution of 1999, with the national government in charge of administration according to law. Currently, there are no Federal Territories in the country because they were elevated to the category of State within the Venezuelan Federation.

Creation

The federal territories would be regulated by the organic law that is able to decree its creation in certain areas of the states, whose validity would be subject to completion of a referendum approving the respective and special law federal entity that may be given to a Federal Territory State category, assigning all or part of the land area.^{[citation needed]}

History

Since 1864, under the government of General Antonio Guzmán Blanco and by Special Act of Congress, the Amazonas and Delta Amacuro Federal Territories were created as territorial political division Federal, until they gained the status of Federal States, via the corresponding Special Act in the year of 1992. On July 4, 1895, President Joaquín Crespo organized the Venezuelan islands in the Caribbean as part of the "Colón Federal Territory [es]," then these territories were divided between the State of Nueva Esparta and the Federal Dependencies.^[1]

In 1998, Vargas, during the government of Rafael Caldera, was elevated to the category of "Federal Territory" for a short period of time when Municipality Vargas's position, pertaining to the Federal District, was finally elevated to the rank of State in the 1999.^[2]

In 2011, the government of the "Francisco de Miranda Insular Territory [es]" was established, comprising the Las Aves Archipelago, Los Roques Archipelago and La Orchila Island, north of Venezuela. The capital is the Los Roques Archipelago.^[3]

List

Name	Year start	Year end	Map
Amazonas Federal Territory	1864	1992
Alto Orinoco Federal Territory [es]	1881	1893
Armisticio Federal Territory [es]	1883	1890
Caura Federal Territory [es]	1882	1891
Colón Federal Territory [es]	1871	1909
Cristóbal Colón Federal Territory [es]	1904	1909
Delta Amacuro Federal Territory	1884	1991
Guajira Federal Territory [es]	1864	1893
Maracay Federal Territory [es]	1879	1880
Margarita Federal Territory [es]	1900	1901
Mariño Federal Territory [es]	1872	1875
Tucacas Federal Territory [es]	1879	1880
Yuruari Federal Territory [es]	1881	1891

See also

• Administrative divisions of Venezuela

References

1. Brewer-Carías, Allan R. (1984). (PDF). Revista de Derecho Público. p. 14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 December 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
2. "Historia de la división territorial de Venezuela". venciclopedia.com. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
3. . ultimasnoticias.com.ve (in Spanish). Últimas Noticias. 25 November 2011. Archived from the original on 9 December 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2014.

External links

• Ley Orgánica de los Territorios Federales
• Ley Especial que Eleva a Categoría de Estado al Territorio Federal Vargas
• Ley Especial que Eleva a Categoría de Estado al Territorio Federal Amazonas
• Ley Especial que Eleva a Categoría de Estado al Territorio Federal Delta Amacuro^{[permanent dead link]}