director. If the municipality is further divided into parajes, the municipal council appoints an ayudante del alcalde pedáneo for each of them. Municipalities are often given special designations because of their number of inhabitants: ciudad (city) in the case of urban centers with over 10,000 inhabitants or the capital of a province, villas (town) in the case of towns with over 1,000 inhabitants or seats of a local government, poblados (village) in the case of villages. Municipalities The following is a list of the 158 municipalities (municipios) of the Dominican Republic as of June 1, 2021. Provincial maps with their municipalities Bibliography Constitución de la República Dominicana. June 13, 2015. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Ley Nº 176-07 del Distrito Nacional y los Municipios. Congreso Nacional, July 20, 2007. See also List of cities in the Dominican Republic References External links Federación Dominicana de Municipios (FEDOMU), Dominican federation of municipalities Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE), Statistics Portal of the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic Subdivisions of the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic 2 Municipalities, Dominican Republic Municipalities