The Departamento de Santander consists of 87 municipalities ( municipios ). These are subdivided into a community center ( Cabecera Municipal ) and the surrounding area ( Resto Rural ). The surrounding area is further subdivided into so-called police inspections ( Inspecciones de Policía Municipal ), smaller offices ( Corregimientos ), settlement centers ( Centros Poblados ) and homesteads ( Caseríos ). The following lists the municipalities with their total number of inhabitants from the census of the Colombian statistical office DANE from 2005, extrapolated for 2018.
