Greater Metropolitan Area of Porto, in Portuguese Grande Área Metropolitana do Porto, is a metropolitan area composed of several municipalities centered in the city of Porto, in northern Portugal. In total it has 14 municipalities that make up the second biggest urban area in the country, after Greater Metropolitan Area of Lisbon. The Greater Metropolitan Area of Porto is a union of metropolitan municipalities (Grande Área Metropolitana), larger than Greater Porto which is a NUTS III subdivision comprising 9 municipalities. A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ... Location  - Region  - Subregion  - District or A.R.   Norte Grande Porto Porto Mayor  - Party Rui Rio PSD Area 41. ... Coat of Arms Arouca is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 329. ... Coat of Arms 19 Street Espinho is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 21. ... Coat of Arms Gondomar is a parish and a city located east in Portugals Oporto metropolitan area with a population of 25,717, the municipality has 12 parishes and a population of 163,574. ... Maia is both a parish and a city in the north of Oporto metropolitan area with a population of 9816, whereas the urban area of the city has a population of 38858. ... Matosinhos is a Portuguese city and respective municipality north of Oporto, whose conurbation it belongs. ... Póvoa de Varzim - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... Coat of Arms Santa Maria da Feira is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 215. ... Coat of Arms Santo Tirso (Parish) - pron. ... Coat of Arms São João da Madeira is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 8. ... Trofa is a municipality and a city in the north of the Oporto metropolitan area in Portugal. ... Vila Nova de Gaia is a city and municipality of Portugal. ... Valongo is a city and a parish located northeast in Oporto metropolitan area in Portugal, the city population is 16698, the municipality has 5 parishes and 85814. ... Coat of Arms Vila do Conde and the Ave River. ... Rui Fernando da Silva Rio (born 1957 in Porto) is a Portuguese politician and current president of the Municipal Chamber of Porto. ... PSD can be an abbreviation for: Photoshop Document, the default file extension of the proprietary file format of Adobe Photoshop. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... To help compare different orders of magnitude and geographical regions, we list here areas between 100 km² and 1000 km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ... World map of the population density in 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... Location  - Region  - Subregion  - District or A.R.   Norte Grande Porto Porto Mayor  - Party Rui Rio PSD Area 41. ... The greater metropolitan areas (Grande Área Metroplitana, in Portuguese) are a territorial unity and continuity that gatters municipalities. ... In Portugal, Greater Porto is composed of Porto, Matosinhos, Maia, Póvoa de Varzim, Vila do Conde, Valongo, Vila Nova de Gaia in the Porto District, and also Espinho in the Aveiro District. ...

It was originally composed of nine municipalities: Porto (the capital), Espinho, Gondomar, Maia, Matosinhos, Póvoa de Varzim, Vila Nova de Gaia, Valongo, and Vila do Conde. In 2006 (due to the municipal elections held in late 2005, it grew to include Santa Maria da Feira, Santo Tirso, Trofa, Arouca and São João da Madeira. At the 2001 census, its population was 1,801,958, although that figure has now increased with the addition of the new territory. Location  - Region  - Subregion  - District or A.R.   Norte Grande Porto Porto Mayor  - Party Rui Rio PSD Area 41. ... Coat of Arms 19 Street Espinho is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 21. ... Coat of Arms Gondomar is a parish and a city located east in Portugals Oporto metropolitan area with a population of 25,717, the municipality has 12 parishes and a population of 163,574. ... Maia is both a parish and a city in the north of Oporto metropolitan area with a population of 9816, whereas the urban area of the city has a population of 38858. ... Matosinhos is a Portuguese city and respective municipality north of Oporto, whose conurbation it belongs. ... Póvoa de Varzim - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... Vila Nova de Gaia is a city and municipality of Portugal. ... Valongo is a city and a parish located northeast in Oporto metropolitan area in Portugal, the city population is 16698, the municipality has 5 parishes and 85814. ... Coat of Arms Vila do Conde and the Ave River. ... Coat of Arms Santa Maria da Feira is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 215. ... Coat of Arms Santo Tirso (Parish) - pron. ... Trofa is a municipality and a city in the north of the Oporto metropolitan area in Portugal. ... Coat of Arms Arouca is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 329. ... Coat of Arms São João da Madeira is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 8. ...

Government

The metropolitan area is governed by the Junta Metropolitana do Porto (JMP), headquartered in Avenida dos Aliados, in downtown Porto under the presidency of Rui Rio (also the mayor of Porto municipality) since the Municipal Elections held late 2005, when he succeeded Valentim Loureiro (mayor of Gondomar). Rui Fernando da Silva Rio (born 1957 in Porto) is a Portuguese politician and current president of the Municipal Chamber of Porto. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Coat of Arms Gondomar is a parish and a city located east in Portugals Oporto metropolitan area with a population of 25,717, the municipality has 12 parishes and a population of 163,574. ...

The Assembleia Metropolitana do Porto (Porto Metropolitan Assembly) is composed of 43 MPs, the PSD party has 20 seats, the PS 16, the CDS 3, CDU another 3 and the BE, one. The Social Democratic Party (Portuguese: Partido Social Democrata, pron. ... PS or ps may stand for: PS at the end of a letter stands for the Latin word Post scriptum. ... CDS may refer to: Commercial Data Systems, Ltd. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Be or be may stand for: Be (Cyrillic): a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet To be: A verb in the English language which fulfils the syntactic function of the copula; on its irregular paradigm, see Indo-European copula Be Incorporated: the software company that developed the BeOS operating system Belarusian...

Although the government has halted the intention of creating new metropolitan areas and urban communities, it is keen to ensure greater autonomy to Porto and Lisbon metropolitan areas.

Conurbations

Greater Porto is an agglomeration composed by a big conurbation, a surrounding conurbation and several urban areas. The bigger and central conurbation is composed by the municipalities of Porto, Matosinhos, Vila Nova de Gaia, Gondomar, Valongo and Maia - this area is also known as part of the "City of Porto" by many of its inhabitants and the people from other areas of the country, although officially are part of different cities. A second and close conurbation includes the one formed by the cities of Póvoa de Varzim and Vila do Conde. In the study of human settlements, an agglomeration is an extended city or town area comprising the built-up area of a central place (usually a municipality) and any suburbs or adjacent satellite towns. ... A conurbation is an urban area comprising a number of cities or towns which, through population growth and expansion, have physically merged to form one continuous built up area. ...

Although Vila Nova de Gaia is the biggest municipality in terms of population that is merely due to the extent of its territory, the city is much smaller and it is the southwards extension of Porto.

There are some intentions to merge the municipalities of Porto with Gaia and Matosinhos into a single and greater municipality, and there is an ongoing civil requisition with that objective. The government also started to discuss the merger of some municipalities due to conurbations, but give up.

Population

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Transportation

The Metropolitan area is keen to develop its transportation network. Porto Metro is a Rapid transit system controlled by the Metropolitan area that links the municipalities of Porto, Vila Nova de Gaia, Matosinhos, Maia, Vila do Conde and Póvoa de Varzim. The Porto Metro (Metro do Porto), part of the mass transit public transport system of Porto, Portugal, is a network of electrified railways that run underground in central Porto and above ground into the citys suburbs. ... Location  - Region  - Subregion  - District or A.R.   Norte Grande Porto Porto Mayor  - Party Rui Rio PSD Area 41. ... Vila Nova de Gaia is a city and municipality of Portugal. ... Matosinhos is a Portuguese city and respective municipality north of Oporto, whose conurbation it belongs. ... Maia can mean several things: Maia (mythology), in Greek mythology, is the eldest of the Pleiades, the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. ... Coat of Arms Vila do Conde and the Ave River. ... Póvoa de Varzim - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ...

The Sá Carneiro Airport (or Porto Airport), between the municipalities of Matosinhos, Maia and Vila do Conde, is also one of its greater investments. It was transformed from an old and obsolet airport to a modern transportation centre, that from April 2006 will be linked to Porto Metro. The JMP is also trying to pressure the government to add a TGV line to link Vigo in Galicia (Spain) to Porto Airport in order to make Porto the air traffic centre of the North-eastern Iberian Peninsula and to tighten its historical ties with that Spanish province. Flag Seal Nickname: The Olive City Location Situation of Vigo within Galicia Government Parroquias Alcabre, Beade, Bembrive, Cabral, Candeán, Castrelos, Comesaña, Coruxo, Lavadores, Matamá, Navia, Oia, Saiáns, Sampaio, Sárdoma, Valadares, Zamáns. ...

Greater Porto is served by a great number of Motorways linking the main central areas of the metropolitan region and the region with other main Portuguese cities. A motorway (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, New Zealand, and some Commonwealth nations) is both a type of road and a classification. ...

Motorways:

• A1 - Lisbon - Porto (North Motorway)
• A3 - Porto - Valença
• A4 - Porto - Amarante
• A7 - Póvoa de Varzim - Vila Pouca de Aguiar
• A20 - Carvalhos - Nó de Francos (CRIP - Porto Innner-Ring Motorway)
• A28 - Porto - Caminha
• A29 - Estarreja - Porto
• A41 - Perafita - Espinho (CREP - Porto Outer-Ring Motorway)
• A43 - Porto (A-20) - Aguiar de Sousa
• A44 - Gulpilhares (A29) - A20

Location  - Region  - Subregion  - District or A.R.   Lisbon Grande Lisboa Lisbon Mayor  - Party Carmona Rodrigues PSD Area 84. ... District or region Viana do Castelo Mayor   - Party José Rodrigues PS Area 117. ... Amarante is a city and municipality of the Porto district, in northern Portugal. ... Caminha is a town in the north-west of Portugal, 21 km north from Viana do Castelo, in Viana do Castelo district. ... Coat of Arms Estarreja is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 108. ...

See also

• Grande Área Metropolitana
• Porto Metro
• Porto Canal
• Invicta TV

The greater metropolitan areas (Grande Área Metroplitana, in Portuguese) are a territorial unity and continuity that gatters municipalities. ... The Porto Metro (Metro do Porto), part of the mass transit public transport system of Porto, Portugal, is a network of electrified railways that run underground in central Porto and above ground into the citys suburbs. ...

External links

• Porto Metropolitan Area - official
• LIPOR - Greater Porto Residues Management
• Sá Carneiro Airport
• Porto Convention Bureau