| Type: | CA |
| La Rochelle | |
| Insee: | 17 |
| Creation: | January 2000 |
| Nbcomm: | 28 |
| President: | Jean-François Fountaine |
| Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
| Party: | DVG |
| Pop: | 171811 |
| Datepop: | 2018 |
| Area: | 327.0 |
| Website: | Agglomeration community of La Rochelle |
The Communauté d'agglomération de La Rochelle is the communauté d'agglomération, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of La Rochelle. It is located in the Charente-Maritime department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, South West France. Its area is 327.0 km2. Its population was 171,811 in 2018, of which 76,114 in La Rochelle proper.[1]
In January 2000, the Community of cities of La Rochelle turned into the Communauté d'agglomération de La Rochelle.[2] It was expanded with 10 more communes in January 2014.[3]
The Communauté d'agglomération de La Rochelle divides into two constituencies: Charente-Maritime's 1st constituency and Charente-Maritime's 2nd constituency. A mayor of La Rochelle from April 1999 to April 2014 and an MP of the Charente-Maritime's 1st constituency from April 1999 to June 2012, Maxime Bono was the president of the Communauté d'agglomération de La Rochelle from its creation to April 2014,[4] when he was succeeded by Jean-François Fountaine.[5] [6]
The communauté d'agglomération consists of the following 28 communes:[7] [8]
The communes are located in the cantons of Aytré, Châtelaillon-Plage (partly), La Jarrie (partly), Lagord and La Rochelle-1, 2 and 3.