Bedford also has three public libraries as well as three separate volunteer fire departments in the three hamlets.
About 85percentt of the two hamlets is preserved as pine barrens, leaving the remaining 15percenttoto shoulder the tax burden.
It takes two days by foot or horseback, up the rocky eastern slopes of the Andes, to reach the six hamlets where about 400 Q'ero Indians still live.
But Jon E. Posner, president and chief operating officer of GMAC Preferred, which has three offices in the area, noted that especially when dealing with post offices and ZIP codes (10506, 10507 and 10536), the three hamlets can cause confusion.
In addition to the parks department, the three hamlets share common highway, planning and building departments, as well as the police force, which has its headquarters in the Town Hall in Bedford Village.
Each of the three hamlets has its own pool, park, baseball field, tennis courts, soccer field and day camp, although all are centrally administered under the town's Parks and Recreation Department.
Of the nine hamlets that were mapped in 1801, seven of the names are of Norse origin.
Abdullah said four of the six hamlets in his village of Mee Chaung Zay had been burned down by security forces, prompting all its residents to flee towards Bangladesh.
In particular the two hamlets of Bayt Jiz and Bayt Susin, where a counter-attacks had been launched by the Arab militants during the first battle, and Hill 369.
# Based on volunteers from mosquito collection houses only (90 and 64 examined individuals from the four and two hamlets of Kirare, respectively).
