Administrative divisions of Rio Blanco

The  of Rio Blanco are concerned with the institutional and territorial organization of the Rioblancoan territory, regulated under the Constitution. Rio Blanco is divided into 11 first-order administrative divisions (FOADs): 10 states and one independent district (Denver Capital District).

The administrative divisions of Rio Blanco are identical to what can be seen in the surrounding.

States
A state refers to one of ten primary administrative units. As Rio Blanco is a federal state, the states possess a number of powers and rights under the United States Constitution, such as regulating intrastate commerce, running elections, creating local governments, and ratifying constitutional amendments. Each state has its own constitution, grounded in republican principles, and government, consisting of three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. All states and their residents are represented in the federal Parliament, a bicameral legislature consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Each state is represented by five Senators, while the number of Representatives is directly linked to the number of counties present in the state at the time of the election.

Like in the United States, Rioblancoan states are usually named after people or natural geographical entities (e.g. Moffat, named after, or El Paso, which is the Spanish name for the ).

The first four states, established at the time of independence in 1876, were El Paso, Moffat, Ouray and Yuma, while the latest state to be created was Sioux, in 1894; since then, the adminisrative layout of the states has not been changed.



Counties
A county is the second-order administrative division, usually assigned some level of governmental authority. The term "county" is used in ten of the eleven FOADs; the Denver Capital District uses the term "neighborhood". As of 2013, Rio Blanco has 102 SOADs, 94 of which are counties and the other eight are neighborhoods.

Townships
A township is the third-order administrative division. While usually created for statistical purposes, but may elect an assembly (townships encompassing part of big cities do so). Counties with just one incorporated community (such as ) or no incorporated communities (such as ) do not contemplate the formation of townships. Therefore, unlike states and counties, townships are not present everywhere in Rio Blanco.

There are two types intra-county divisions:
 * incorporated township, which seat is an incorporated community or a census-designated place
 * unorganized township, which is administered directly by the county. An unorganized township usually has no active settlements or unincorporated communities within its limits.