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merged into municipalities, where previously only urban areas were organized as municipalities. As an effect of decentralization through the 1994 Law of Popular Participation the number of municipalities in Bolivia has risen from an initial 273 (in 1985) to 327 (in 2002), to 337 (at the time of the 2010 elections), to 339 as of August 2010 lc=y. Of the 327 municipalities existing after 2005,

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