Gironde (Department, France): Intermunicipal Authorities

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• Former intermunicipal authorities
  • Communanuté de communes du Canton de Bourg
  • Communauté de communes des Lacs Médocains

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• France
• Gironde (Department, France)
• France: Intermunicipal Authorities

Bordeaux Métropole

Flag of Bordeaux Métropole - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 10 January 2019

Bordeaux Métropole (773,542 inhabitants in 2015; 57,830 ha) was created in January 2015, replacing the former Communauté urbaine de Bordeaux. Bordeaux Métropole is composed of 28 municipalities in the métropole: Bordeaux, Ambarès-et-Lagrave, Ambès, Artigues-près-Bordeaux, Bassens, Bègles, Blanquefort, Bouliac, Le Bouscat, Bruges, Carbon-Blanc, Cenon, Eysines, Floirac, Gradignan, Le Haillan, Lormont, Martignas-sur-Jalle, Mérignac, Parempuyre, Pessac, Saint-Aubin-de-Médoc, Saint-Louis-de-Montferrand, Saint-Médard-en-Jalles, Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Le Taillan-Médoc, Talence, and Villenave-d'Ornon.

The flag of Bordeaux Métropole (photo, Szczmbze 2015) is white with the authority's logo.

The "logoplan" of Bordeaux Métropole was designed by the Franco-Swiss designer Ruedi Baur (b. 1956) and Kubik, a design agency from Bordeaux. The "graphic system" represents a moving identity, where each of the 28 municipalities forming the metropolis is specifically identified. On the "fireworks" logo of the metropolis, each municipality is represented by a black dot and connected to Bordeaux, placed in the center, by a line with a specific color.
Each municipality has its own version of the logo, where it is connected to all the other municipalities by lines of its specific colors, giving a different graph for each municipality.
[Graphéine, 3 January 2015]

Bassin d'Arcachon Sud (COBAS)

Flag of Bassin d'Arcachon Sud (COBAS) - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 10 April 2022

The Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin d'Arcachon Sud (COBAS), is an intermunicipal structure in the department of Gironde. There are 4 communes (Arcachon, Gujan-Mestras, Le Teich, La Teste-de-Buch),
gathering 67,500 inhabitants on 328.80 km². The community was created in 2001 from the former structure known as “District Sud Bassin”.

The flag is white with logo: photo, 2016.

Communautés de communes

Grand Cubzaguais

Flag of Grand Cubzaguais - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 10 April 2022

The Communauté de communes du Grand Cubzaguais is an intermunicipal structure in the department of Gironde. There are 35,600 inhabitants on 151.20 km² in 16 communes. The former Communauté de communes du Cubzaguais was created in 2000; the 10 members were Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Cubzac-les-Ponts, Peujard, Saint-Gervais, Salignac, Saint-Laurent-d'Arce, Aubie-et-Espessas, Gauriaguet, Virsac, Saint-Antoine.
In 2016, Aubie-et-Espessas, Salignac and Saint-Antoine merged into 1 commune, Val-de-Virvée. In 2017, the communes of the former Communauté de communes du canton de Bourg (Bourg, Lansac, Mombrier, Prignac-et-Marcamps, Pugnac, Saint-Trojan, Tauriac and Teuillac) joined. The Communauté de communes du Cubzaguais became then the Communauté de communes du Grand Cubzaguais.

The flag is white with logo: photo (2018), photo (2020), photo (2021).

Olivier Touzeau, 10 April 2022

Flag of Bourg-Cubzaguais tourist office - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 6 May 2022

Bourg-Cubzaguais tourism is the intermunicipal tourist office managed by Grand Cubzaguais. It has two offices: in Bourg and in Saint-André de Cubzac. Flags can be observed in Bourg, where are flown the Bourg-Cubzaguais tourism flag (bordeaux/red with the logo) and the flag of the Communauté de communes du Grand Cubzaguais: photo.

Olivier Touzeau, 6 May 2022

Latitude Nord Gironde

Flag of Latitude Nord Gironde - left, current flag ; right, former flag - Images by Olivier Touzeau, 10 April 2022

The Communauté de communes Latitude Nord Gironde is an intermunicipal structure in the department of Gironde. There are 20,500 inhabitants on 211.70 km² in 12 communes: Saint-Savin, Cavignac, Cézac, Civrac-de-Blaye, Cubnezais, Donnezac, Laruscade, Marcenais, Marsas, Saint-Mariens, Saint-Vivien-de-Blaye, Saint-Yzan-de-Soudiac. Created in 1999 as the Communauté de communes du canton de Saint-Savin, the community was renamed in 2015 Communauté de communes Latitude Nord Gironde.

The flag is white with logo. Current flag : photo (2021). Former flag before 2015: photo (2014).

Olivier Touzeau, 10 April 2022

Secteur de Saint-Loubès

Flag of Secteur de Saint-Loubès - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 15 January 2019

The Communauté de communes du secteur de Saint-Loubès (26,622 inhabitants in 2018; 8,157 ha) was created in December 2000 by the municipalities of Saint-Loubès (seat), Beychac-et-Caillau, Montussan, Sainte-Eulalie, Saint-Sulpice-et-Cameyrac, and Yvrac.
The flag of the Communauté de communes du secteur de Saint-Loubès (photo, photo, photo) is white with the authority's logo.

Olivier Touzeau, 15 January 2019

Portes de l'Entre-deux-Mers

Flag of Portes de l'Entre-deux-Mers - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 28 February 2021

The Communauté de communes des Portes de l'Entre-deux-Mers (21,064 inhabitants in 2017; 8,760 ha) was created in 2002 by the municipalities of Baurech, Cambes, Camblanes-et-Meyrac, Cénac, Latresne, Quinsac, Saint-Caprais-de-Bordeaux. Lignan-de-Bordeaux, Langoiran, Le Tourne, and Tabanac joined in 2017. Entre-deux-Mers (Between-Two-Seas) is a region located east of Bordeaux, surrounded by the right bank of the Garonne to the south and the left bank of the Dordogne to the north.
The flag of Portes de l'Entre-deux-Mers (photo) is white with the authority's logo.

Olivier Touzeau, 28 February 2021

Former intermunicipal authorities

Communautés de communes du Canton de Bourg

Flag of Communanuté de communes du Canton de Bourg - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 5 May 2022

the Communauté de communes du canton de Bourg is a former intermunicipal structure in the Gironde department. It had been created in 1996, gathering 13,500 inhabitants on 95.39 km² in 15 communes.

The community was suppressed on December 31, 2016. The communes of Bayon-sur-Gironde, Comps, Gauriac, Saint-Ciers-de-Canesse, Saint-Seurin-de-Bourg, Samonac and Villeneuve joined the Communauté de
communes du canton de Blaye; the communes of Bourg, Lansac, Mombrier, Prignac-et-Marcamps, Pugnac, Saint-Trojan, Tauriac et Teuillac joined the Communauté de communes du Cubzaguais.

The flag, observed in 2013 in Tauriac, was white with logo: photo. It could be observed too for example on the tourist office in the commune of Bourg in 2013: photo.

Communautés de communes des Lacs Médocains

Flag of Tourist office of Lacs Médocains - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 3 May 2022

The communauté de communes des Lacs Médocains, created in 2002, had three members: the communes of Carcans, Hourtin and Lacanau, gathering 10,200 inhabitants on 529.92 km².
On January 1st, 2017, the Communauté de communes des Lacs Médocains merged with the Communauté de communes de la Pointe du Médoc, giving birth to the new Communauté de communes Médoc Atlantique (1035.40 km², 26.600 inhabitants, 14 communes, seat in Soulac-sur-Mer).

The common tourist office of Carcans-Maubuisson, Hourtin and Lacanau was known as “Médoc Océan”.
The logo of Médoc Océan had three butterflies for the three communes, and included the logo of the the Communauté de communes des Lacs Médocains (a sun with 3 rays for the 3 communes, on the atlantic coast)

A white flag with this logo could be seen near the tourist office of Carcans: photo, 2011 and photo, undated; and in front of the city hall of Carcans: photo, 2010.