Baixo Alentejo (intermunicipal community)

Map showing the location of Baixo Alentejo
Fields of wheat in Baixo Alentejo

The Comunidade Intermunicipal do Baixo Alentejo (English: Lower Alentejo) is an administrative division in Portugal. It was created in 2009.[1] It is also a NUTS3 subregion of the Alentejo Region. The seat of the intermunicipal community is Beja. Baixo Alentejo comprises 13 of the 14 municipalities of the former Beja District. The population in 2011 was 126,692,[2] in an area of 8,542.72 km².[3]

It is bordered on the North by Alentejo Central Subregion, on the East by Spain, on the South by the Algarve and on the West by Alentejo Litoral. It covers the Eastern part of the former Baixo Alentejo Province.

Municipalities

It is composed of 13 municipalities:[4]

MunicipalityPopulation (2011)[2]Area (km²)[3]
Aljustrel9,257458.47
Almodôvar7,449777.88
Alvito2,504264.85
Barrancos1,834168.42
Beja35,8541146.44
Castro Verde7,276569.44
Cuba4,878172.09
Ferreira do Alentejo8,255648.25
Mértola7,2741292.87
Moura15,167958.46
Ourique5,389663.31
Serpa15,6231105.63
Vidigueira5,932316.61
Total126,6928,542.72

References

  1. ↑ CIM Baixo Alentejo
  2. 1 2 Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  3. 1 2 Direção-Geral do Território Archived 2014-09-29 at Archive.is
  4. ↑ "Law nr. 75/2013" (PDF). Diário da República (in Portuguese). Assembly of the Republic (Portugal). Retrieved 18 August 2014.

Coordinates: 38°01′N 7°52′W / 38.017°N 7.867°W / 38.017; -7.867

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