Comunidade Intermunicipal do Oeste ( or ; in

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: Intermunicipal Community of the West; abbreviated OesteCIM) is an

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, located on the country's western central coast. The population in 2011 was 362,540,Instituto Nacional de Estatística
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Caldas da Rainha Caldas da Rainha () is a medium-sized Portuguese city in the Oeste region, in the historical province of Estremadura, and in the district of Leiria. The city serves as the seat of the larger municipality of the same name and of the Comunidad ...

serves as the seat of OesteCIM. The law establishing the framework for intermunicipal communities and metropolitan areas was approved by the Assembly of the Republic (Assembleia da República) on 27 August 2008. On 25 November 2008, the Associação de Municípios do Oeste (Association of Municipalities of the West), by the approval of the municipal assemblies ('' assembleias municipais'') of each of its constituent municipalities, converted itself into the Comunidade Intermunicipal do Oeste. The law formally establishing the names, borders, and duties of the intermunicipal communities and metropolitan areas was approved by the Assembly of the Republic on 12 September 2013. OesteCIM is the successor to Associação de Municípios do Oeste (Association of Municipalities of the West) and Comunidade Urbana do Oeste (Urban Community of the West; abbreviated ComUrb Oeste), which had been instituted on 29 March 2004. OesteCIM is coterminous with the statistical

NUTS 3 Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics or NUTS (french: Nomenclature des unités territoriales statistiques) is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of countries for statistical purposes. The standard, adopted in 2003 ...

subregion Oeste within the NUTS II

Centro Region The Central Region ( pt, Região do Centro, ) or Central Portugal is one of the statistical regions of Portugal. The cities with major administrative status inside this region are Coimbra, Aveiro, Viseu, Caldas da Rainha, Leiria, Castelo Branco, ...

.Adequação dos indicadores à nova organização territorial NUTS III / Entidades Intermunicipais
Instituto Nacional de Estatística, 18 March 2015 It is a region famous for its fruits and vegetables production, namely the famous pêra rocha variety.

Municipalities

Headquarters of Comunidade Intermunicipal do Oeste

Comunidade Intermunicipal do Oeste is made up of twelve municipalities:

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authority {{Comunidade Intermunicipal do Oeste Oeste Centro Region, Portugal

Municipalities

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