West Mani


West Mani is a municipality in the Messenia regional unit, Peloponnese, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Kardamyli. The municipality has an area of 402.809 km2.
It comprises the northwestern part of the geographic and historical region of the Mani Peninsula, also known as Messenian Mani or Outer Mani, in juxtaposition with the southeastern part of Mani, which is covered by the municipality of East Mani.

Municipality

The municipality of West Mani was established in 2011 by the Kallikratis Programme, a nationwide administrative reform. As a consequence of the reform, the municipalities of Avia and Lefktro were merged into the new municipality of West Mani.