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Departamento

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A departamento (Spanish pronunciation: [depaɾtaˈmento]) is a country subdivision in several Latin American countries, mostly as top-level subnational divisions[1] (except in Argentina). It is usually simply translated as "department".

Current use

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Ten countries currently have departamentos.

Country Level Num. Subdivisions
Argentina Argentina 2nd (under provincias) 378[2] municipios
Bolivia Bolivia 1st 9[3] provincias
Colombia Colombia 1st 32[4][5] municipios
El Salvador El Salvador 1st 14[6] municipios
Guatemala Guatemala 1st 22[7] municipios
Honduras Honduras 1st 18[8] municipios
Nicaragua Nicaragua 1st 15[9] municipios
Paraguay Paraguay 1st 17[10] municipios
Peru Peru 1st 24[11] municipios
Uruguay Uruguay 1st 19[12] provincia

Past use

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Mexico in the 1830s was divided into 24 departamentos,[13] which were first-level divisions. It was during an attempt to centralize the government.

References

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  1. ^ Administrative divisions in the western hemisphere (PDF) (Report). Central Intelligence Agency. 21 September 1999. p. 2. Retrieved 2 June 2025. In Bolivia, Colombia, and Guatemala, for example, the departamento is a first-order division.
  2. ^ Bossio, Juan Carlos; Fernández, Hugo; Armando, Gustavo; Rodríguez, Luciana; Mordini, Natalia (September 2018). Mortalidad por Tuberculosis en la Republica Argentina: Período 1980 – 2016 [Tuberculosis Mortality in the Argentine Republic: Period 1980 – 2016] (PDF) (Report) (in Spanish). Ministry of Health Programs. Retrieved 2 June 2025. Del total de 527 sub-jurisdicciones (378 departamentos de 22 provincias, 134 partidos de la provincia de Buenos Aires y 15 comunas de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires) [Of the 527 sub-jurisdictions (378 departments in 22 provinces, 134 districts in the province of Buenos Aires, and 15 communes in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires)]
  3. ^ "Bolivia". Latin American Economic System. Retrieved 2 June 2025. Administrative divisions: 9 departments (departamentos, singular- departamento)
  4. ^ "División Política de Colombia" [Political Division of Colombia]. colombiaya.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 10 March 2009. Retrieved 2 June 2025. Según la Constitución de 1991, Colombia está compuesta por 32 departamentos y un único Distrito Capital (Bogotá). [According the 1991 Constitution, Colombia is made up of 32 departments and a single Capital District (Bogotá).]
  5. ^ "CO - Colombia". International Standards Organisation. Retrieved 2 June 2025. Subdivisions: 32 department (en) / département (fr) / departamento (es)
  6. ^ Kleiman, Evan (27 October 2023). "Bill Esparza eats his way through LA's El Salvador Corridor". KCRW. Retrieved 2 June 2025. The country of El Salvador is divided into 14 departamentos or departments
  7. ^ Rinaldi, Andrea C.; Comandini, Ornella; Flores Arzu, Roberto (13 January 2012). "A preliminary checklist of macrofungi of Guatemala, with notes on edibility and traditional knowledge" (PDF). Mycosphere Journal of Fungal Biology. 3 (1): 3. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/3/1/1. Retrieved 2 June 2025. Departments of Guatemala. Guatemala is divided into 22 administrative departments
  8. ^ "Honduras". Latin American Economic System. Retrieved 2 June 2025. Administrative divisions: 18 departments (departamentos, singular – departamento)
  9. ^ "División Político Administrativa del País" [Political Administrative Division of the Country] (PDF). Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudios Territoriales (in Spanish). March 2000. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 April 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2025. El territorio nacional se divide para su administración en quince (15) Departamentos [The national territory is divided for its administration into fifteen (15) Departments]
  10. ^ "Ficha país Paraguay" (PDF). Government of Spain (in Spanish). Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation. August 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2025. Paraguay está dividido administrativamente en 17 departamentos [Paraguay is administratively divided into 17 departments]
  11. ^ Navarro-Mamani, Dennis A.; Jurado, Jessica; Vargas-Calla, Ana; Ponce, Kevin; Sherman, Tyler; Zarate, Yari; Murga-Moreno, César A.; Perez, Ibelice; Villacaqui, Ruben; Ara, Miguel; Ortiz, Pedro; Rivera, Hermelinda; Mayo, Christie E. (January 2025). Korennoy, Fedor (ed.). "National Seroprevalence and Risk Factors of Bluetongue Virus in Domestic Ruminants of Peru". Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 2025 (1). Wiley: 2. doi:10.1155/tbed/2690231. eISSN 1865-1682. Peru is in the Central-Western region of South America. It encompasses an area of 1,285,216 km2 and is divided into 24 departments and 1874 districts.
  12. ^ Límites departamentales del Uruguay - Informe diagnóstico [Departmental Boundaries of Uruguay - Diagnostic Report] (PDF) (Report) (in Spanish). Government of Uruguay. October 2024. p. 3. Retrieved 2 June 2025. El territorio uruguayo se organiza en 19 departamentos [Uruguay is organized into 19 departments]
  13. ^ Cronología de la estadística en México (1521-2008) [Chronology of statistics in Mexico (1521-2008)] (PDF) (in Mexican Spanish). National Institute of Statistics and Geography. 2009. p. 20. ISBN 978-970-13-5161-1. Al promulgarse la Constitución de 1836, el país queda divido en 24 departamentos. [When the Constitution of 1836 was promulgated, the country was divided into 24 departments.] {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)


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