The Ponce City Hall, in the city of Ponce, is the seat of the
government for both the city and the surrounding barrios making up the
municipality. A municipality is usually an urban administrative division having
corporate status and usually powers of self-government. The term municipality
is also used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a
general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose
district. The term is derived from French "municipalité" and Latin
"municipalis".
