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With the exception of the municipal organizations the local governments of the Republic are mere subordinate departments of the executive branch of the General Government.

The President appoints the prefects or governors of the departments and the subprefects of the provinces, and they in turn the corregidores of the cantons and the alcaldes of the vice-cantons. The prefects are the chief political, administrative, and military authorities of their respective departments.

The administration of municipal affairs is uniform throughout the Republic. The municipal council of each department capital constitutes the supreme municipal authority of the department. Those of the provincial capitals and inferior towns down to the municipal agents, resident in the rural districts of the cantons, are dependent thereon.