The Comunidade Intermunicipal do Alto Minho (Portuguese pronunciation:[ˈaltuˈmiɲu]) is an administrative division in northern Portugal. It is situated between the Minho River and Lima River. It was created in October 2008.[1] Since January 2015, Alto Minho is also the designation of a NUTS3 subregion of Norte Region, that covers the same area as the intermunicipal community.[2] The main town of the intermunicipal community is Viana do Castelo. The intermunicipal community is coterminous with the Viana do Castelo District. The population in 2011 was 244,836,[3] in an area of 2,218.84 km2.[4]
It borders to the north the Galicia autonomous region in Spain and to the south with the Cávado intermunicipal community. It is an area with a strong gastronomic identity and produces a specific type of wine called Vinho Verde (young wine).
^CIM Alto Minho
^Adequação dos indicadores à nova organização territorial NUTS III / Entidades Intermunicipais, Instituto Nacional de Estatística, 18 March 2015
^Instituto Nacional de Estatística
^"Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país". Archived from the original on 2018-11-05. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
Intermunicipal do AltoMinho (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈaltu ˈmiɲu]) is an administrative division in northern Portugal. It is situated between the Minho River...
The AltoMinho Wind Farm in the Viana do Castelo district, of Portugal, became fully operational in November 2008, when Portugal's Economy Minister Manuel...
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do Castelo) Praia do Castelo do Neiva (Viana do Castelo) Praia do Foz do Minho (Caminha) Praia do Mar e Sol (Caminha) Praia do Moledo (Caminha) Praia do...
Municipality official website "Plano de Gestão da Região hidrográfica do Minho e Lima" (PDF). APA. pp. 103, 115, 119. Retrieved 25 June 2021. "SNIRH >...
genetic groups. Four groups were identified in the Portuguese regions of AltoMinho, Alto Trás-os-Montes, and one group located south of the Douro river. Seven...
on the southern side of the Minho estuary, where this river is met by the smaller and meandering Coura. Here the Minho reaches its widest point (about...
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Monção and northeast by Melgaço. Territorially, it occupies 20.18% of the AltoMinho subregion, 2.10% of the Norte region, or approximately 0.5% of continental...
and the mountain, Vila Nova de Cerveira is located on the left bank of Minho River, which establishes the border with Spain, and is limited to northeast...
Redação (2021-07-17). "Quarto navio oceânico 'made in' Viana já flutua". O Minho (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-09-24. Andreia Ferreira (2018-07-19)...
de Matosinhos, EPE Matosinhos (Hospital Pedro Hispano) I North ULS do AltoMinho, EPE Viana do Castelo (Hospital de Santa Luzia and Hospital Conde Bertiandos)...
Count of Tui, D. Paio Vermundes, or his sons, when the lands between the Minho and Lima Rivers were under his domain. Documents from the 10th century,...
now recognising that fado music was born based on the typical songs of Minho region.[citation needed] SC Vianense is the local football club. Founded...
[o] by most speakers of Portuguese.[citation needed] In the dialects of Alto-Minho and Trás-os-Montes (northern Portugal), the digraph ch still denotes the...
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