page_title: Corippo
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Corippo / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Street in the Village of Corippo, Ticino
context_page_description: Corippo is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
  With a population of just 12 inhabitants, July 2018, it is the smallest municipality in Switzerland. Despite this, it possesses the trappings of communities many times its size: an official website, its own coat of arms, a village church, a restaurant, and a mayor who leads a town council consisting of three local citizens. The village has maintained its status as an independent entity since its incorporation in 1822.
context_section_description: Corippo has an area, as of 1997, of 7.73 square kilometers (2.98 sq mi).  Of this area, 0.07 km² (0.027 sq mi) or 0.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 4.95 km² (1.91 sq mi) or 64.0% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 0.02 km² (4.9 acres) or 0.3% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.33 km² (0.13 sq mi) or 4.3% is either rivers or lakes and 1.81 km² (0.70 sq mi) or 23.4% is unproductive land.
  Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 0.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.1%.  Out of the forested land, 51.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 0.8% is used for growing crops.  Of the water in the municipality, 2.5% is in lakes and 1.8% is in rivers and streams.  Of the unproductive areas, 17.5% is unproductive vegetation and 6.0% is too rocky for vegetation.
  The municipality is located in the Locarno district, on the western slope of the Verzasca valley, above the lake.  It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Corippo.
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