Mancomunidad

[4] In general, mancomunidades are aimed at carrying out projects or providing common services.

They are required to set a clear goal, create management bodies distinct from those of the individual municipalities, and provide the mancomunidad with its own budget.

There are a number of natural or historical regions that, despite the strong identity and common goals of their inhabitants, are divided by provincial or even ancient kingdom boundaries.

Such regions or comarcas have often not been able to achieve the necessary legal recognition for their administrative development within the existing provincial or autonomous frameworks.

[6] Other groups of municipalities that do not face the problem of borders cutting across their natural region or comarca may form a mancomunidad for economic reasons, to improve local services or in order alleviate some form of historical administrative neglect owing to distance from and lack of communication with current administrative centers.