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Communauté d'agglomération de Mantes-en-Yvelines

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Communauté d'agglomération de Mantes-en-Yvelines
Settlement
Map
CountryFrance
No. of communes30
Population
 (2008)
101 681

The Communauté d'agglomération de Mantes-en-Yvelines (or CAMY) is an administrative entity in the Yvelines département, near Paris. Administrative center: Magnanville.

History

  • At first, the syndicat intercommunal d'assainissement de l'agglomération mantaise was founded in 1951.
  • In 1966, it became the District urbain de Mantes (DUM).
  • It became a Communauté de communes then, in 1999, a Communauté d'agglomération.
  • In 2010, the CAMY adheres at the syndicat mixte Paris Métropole.[1]

Geography

Location

The Communauté d'agglomération de Mantes-en-Yvelines is located at the south-west of the département of Yvelines, around the Seine river and Mantes-la-Jolie city.

Communes

The 30 communes of CAMY in 2012

When he was created in 1999, CAMY had 8 communes. In 2004, 2005, 2011 and 2012, new members joined CAMY which has now 30 communes:[2]

In 2010, Dominique Braye said that the territory of the CAMY would spread in the coming years. In January 2012, thirteen new towns have made their entry into the agglomération.[3] In 2013, five new towns should be entering the aglommeration: Gargenville, Guernes, Fontenay-Mauvoisin, Fontenay-Saint-Père and Saint-Martin-la-Garenne, bringing to 35 the number of the communes component CAMY.[4] Note that the second city of the metropolitan area, Limay, 16 005 inhabitants, which is also the most industrialized and do not want to join the CAMY. It should, according to the SDCI Yvelines, join Issou and Guitrancourt, common on the right bank of the Seine, to form a new intercommunalité.[5]

Education

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