Corippo

Corippo is a former municipality of the district Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

Corippo
Former municipality
Corippo
Coat of arms
Location of Corippo
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Coordinates: 46.236°N 8.841°E / 46.236; 8.841
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Ticino
District	Locarno
Government
• Mayor	Claudius Scettrini
Area [1]
• Total	7.71 km2 (2.98 sq mi)
Elevation	558 m (1,831 ft)
Population  (31 December 2018)[2]
• Total	11
• Density	1.4/km2 (3.7/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)	6631
SFOS number	5102
Surrounded by	Gordevio, Lavertezzo, Mergoscia, Vogorno
Website	www.corippo.ch SFSO statistics

With a population of just 17 as of December 2004, it is the smallest municipality in Switzerland^[source?]. It has many of the things that communities many times its size has: an official website (www.corippo.ch Archived 2006-05-16 at the Wayback Machine), its own coat of arms, a village church, a restaurant, and a mayor who leads a town council made up of three local citizens. The village has remained independent since 1822.

On 17 October 2020 the former municipalities of Brione (Verzasca), Corippo, Frasco, Sonogno and Vogorno merged to form the new municipality of Verzasca.^[3]

Description

Corippo lies in the Verzasca valley about 12 kilometers (7.4 miles) from Locarno at the north end of the reservoir Lake Vogorno, and 20 km from the border with Italy. The houses are built from the local Ticino granite with slate roofs and have changed little for several hundred years, leading the Italian writer Piero Bianconi to describe Corippo as "Verzasca's gentlest village".^[source?]