Essonne (Department, France): Intermunicipal Authorities

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• Index of the Intermunicipal Authorities
• Cœur d'Essonne Agglomération (Communauté d'agglomération)
• Former Intermunicipal Authorities
  • Portes de l'Essonne (Communauté d'agglomération, 2009-2015)
  • Seine-Essonne (Communauté d'agglomération, 2002-2015)
  • Val d'Orge (Communauté d'agglomération, 2001-2016)

See also:

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

Index of the Intermunicipal Authorities

Cœur d'Essonne Agglomération

Flag of Cœur d'Essonne - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 16 November 2019

The Communauté Cœur d'Essonne was created in January 2016, as the merger of the former Communauté d'agglomération du Val d'Orge and the former Communauté de communes de l'Arpajonnais (except the communes of Lardy, Saint-Yon and Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon, which joined the Communauté de communes Entre Juine et Renarde).
Cœur d'Essonne is composed of 21 municipalities: Arpajon, Avrainville, Brétigny-sur-Orge, Breuillet, Bruyères-le-Châtel, Cheptainville, Égly, Fleury-Mérogis, Guibeville, Leuville-sur-Orge, Longpont-sur-Orge, Marolles-en-Hurepoix, Morsang-sur-Orge, La Norville, Ollainville, Le Plessis-Pâté, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon, Saint-Michel-sur-Orge, Villemoisson-sur-Orge and Villiers-sur-Orge.

The flag of Cœur d'Essonne (photo, seat) is white with the authority's logo.

Olivier Touzeau, 16 November 2019

Former Intermunicipal Authorities

Portes de l'Essonne

Flag of Portes de l'Essonne - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 17 February 2017

The Communauté d'agglomération Les Portes de l'Essonne (CALPE, 102,766 inhabitants in 2010, 2,871 ha) was founded on 23 November 2000, as a Communauté de Communes, by the municipalities of Athis-Mons (31,434 inh.), Juvisy-sur-Orge (16,160 inh.), and Paray-Vieille-Poste (7,378 inh.). Transformed in 2009 into a Communauté d'agglomération, the CALPE was subsequently joined by the municipalities of Morangis (12,583 inh.) and Savigny-sur-Orge (37,075 inh.).
CALPE was suppressed on 1 January 2016, following the establishemnt of Métropole du Grand Paris (MGP); the five municipalities were incorporated in September 2016 to the T12 Division of MGP (Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre).

The flag of CALPE (photo) was white with the logo of the authority.

Olivier Touzeau, 17 February 2017

Seine-Essonne

Flag of Seine-Essonne - Image by Ivan Sache, 22 June 2009

The Communauté d'agglomération Seine-Essonne (CASE, 65,089 inhabitant in 2010, 4,759 ha) was founded on 19 December 2002, superseding the Communauté de Communes Corbeil-Essonne - Le Coudray-Montceaux, whic had been founded in 1996. CASE is made of the municipalities of Corbeil-Essonnes (43,086 inh.), Le Coudray-Montceaux (4,708 inh.), Étiolles (3,073 inh.) Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil (7,174 inh.), and Soisy-sur-Seine (7,48 inh.).
CASE was suppressed on 1 January 2016, after its merger with other interurban authorities to form the Communauté d'agglomération Grand Paris Sud Seine-Essonne-Sénart.

The flag of CASE, as seen on 21 June 2009 in Le Coudray-Montceaux during a sports event sponsored by the authority, was white with the logo of CASE.
The logo of CASE was made of a disk divided blue-green with a sinuous white line, recalling the letters "S" and "E" for the two rivers for which the community is named, the Seine and the Essonne, surmounted by "Seine Essonne / COMMUNAUTÉ D'AGGLOMÉRATION" in black letters.

Former (?) flag of the Communauté d'agglomération Seine-Essonne - Photo by Ivan Sache, 21 June 2009

During the same sports event, an other flag representing CASE was used, white with a different logo. The disk is divided by a dark blue line (instead of white), "Seine / Essonne", written in black italic letters is partially written on the disk, and "COMMUNAUTÉ D'AGGLOMÉRATION" is placed in an arched pattern just above the disk.

Ivan Sache, 22 June 2009

Val d'Orge

Flag of Val d'Orge - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 16 November 2019

The Communauté d'agglomération du Val d'Orge (CAVO; 133,177 inhabitants in 2010, 5,923 ha) was established on 1 January 2001 by the municipalities of Fleury-Mérogis (9,121 inh.), Morsang-sur-Orge (20,944 inh.), Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (34,195 inh.), Saint-Michel-sur-Orge (20,046 inh.), Villemoisson-sur-Orge (6,950 inh.), and Villiers-sur-Orge (3,891 inh.), all located in the valley of river Orge (50 km), tributary of the Seine.
The CAVO was joined in 2003 by Brétigny-sur-Orge (23,334 inh.) and Le Plessis-Pâté (4,036 inh.), in 2005 by Leuville-sur-Orge (4,099 inh.), and in 2010 by Longpont-sur-Orge (6,561 inh.).
The CAVO was suppressed on 1 January 2016, following its merger with the Communauté de communes de l'Arpajonnais to form the Communauté d'agglomération Cœur d'Essonne Agglomération.

The flag of the CAVO (photo) was white with the authority's logo.

Ivan Sache, 21 March 2017