It is the center of the state's 14th administrative region.
It operates schools in an administrative region of 10,886 km2.
Being part of an administrative region different from the province's own does not make a city independent.
The government, however, is preparing a plan for new administrative regions.
The two regions were joined as one administrative region in the late 1980s.
Many accomplishments have taken place across the six administrative regions.
Elections to Government posts in the new administrative region are to be held this year.
Other norms create nations themselves or political and administrative regions within a nation.
It lost then its position of a municipality and became an administrative region.
It no longer however represents, as did its predecessor, an administrative region.