Sollacaro
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Sollacaro Suddacarò | |
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Coordinates: 41°44′36″N 8°54′41″E / 41.7433°N 8.9114°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Corsica |
Department | Corse-du-Sud |
Arrondissement | Sartène |
Canton | Taravo-Ornano |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Jean Jacques Bartoli[1] |
Area 1 | 23.89 km2 (9.22 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | 369 |
• Density | 15/km2 (40/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 2A284 /20140 |
Elevation | 0–814 m (0–2,671 ft) (avg. 450 m or 1,480 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Sollacaro (French pronunciation: [sɔlakaʁo]; Italian: Sollacarò, pronounced [sollakaˈrɔ]; Corsican: Suddacarò) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.
Geography[edit]
The village is located at 450 m of altitude in the Taravo valley, on the departmental road 302, linking the Celaccia gap to Pisciatello (close to Ajaccio) via Pila-Canale.
A large part of the village is on the northwest side of a hill therefore there is no morning sun[3] except for the Torre and adjacent neighbourhoods situated on a rocky spur.
Sollacaro is 25 km (16 mi) southeast from the prefecture, Ajaccio, 14 km (8.7 mi) north of the subprefecture Sartène and 8 km (5.0 mi) north of Propriano.
Climate[edit]
Sollacaro has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa). The average annual temperature in Sollacaro is 15.4 °C (59.7 °F). The average annual rainfall is 729.3 mm (28.71 in) with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 23.7 °C (74.7 °F), and lowest in January, at around 8.6 °C (47.5 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Sollacaro was 43.5 °C (110.3 °F) on 23 July 2009; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −6.2 °C (20.8 °F) on 2 January 2002.
Climate data for Sollacaro (1981–2010 averages, extremes 1990−2014) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 21.5 (70.7) | 25.0 (77.0) | 30.0 (86.0) | 32.0 (89.6) | 37.0 (98.6) | 40.0 (104.0) | 43.5 (110.3) | 41.0 (105.8) | 38.4 (101.1) | 33.8 (92.8) | 28.0 (82.4) | 23.5 (74.3) | 43.5 (110.3) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 14.0 (57.2) | 14.4 (57.9) | 17.1 (62.8) | 19.3 (66.7) | 24.3 (75.7) | 28.3 (82.9) | 31.6 (88.9) | 31.8 (89.2) | 27.3 (81.1) | 23.3 (73.9) | 17.9 (64.2) | 14.5 (58.1) | 22.0 (71.6) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 8.6 (47.5) | 8.6 (47.5) | 10.5 (50.9) | 12.8 (55.0) | 17.1 (62.8) | 20.6 (69.1) | 23.2 (73.8) | 23.7 (74.7) | 20.3 (68.5) | 17.2 (63.0) | 12.8 (55.0) | 9.4 (48.9) | 15.4 (59.7) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 3.2 (37.8) | 2.8 (37.0) | 3.9 (39.0) | 6.4 (43.5) | 9.9 (49.8) | 12.9 (55.2) | 14.8 (58.6) | 15.6 (60.1) | 13.3 (55.9) | 11.1 (52.0) | 7.6 (45.7) | 4.4 (39.9) | 8.9 (48.0) |
Record low °C (°F) | −6.2 (20.8) | −6.1 (21.0) | −3.0 (26.6) | 0.0 (32.0) | 2.5 (36.5) | 6.5 (43.7) | 8.0 (46.4) | 9.5 (49.1) | 6.9 (44.4) | 1.0 (33.8) | −4.8 (23.4) | −5.0 (23.0) | −6.2 (20.8) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 67.1 (2.64) | 47.2 (1.86) | 56.3 (2.22) | 61.1 (2.41) | 54.3 (2.14) | 23.9 (0.94) | 7.3 (0.29) | 18.0 (0.71) | 66.2 (2.61) | 108.5 (4.27) | 126.5 (4.98) | 92.9 (3.66) | 729.3 (28.71) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 7.9 | 7.3 | 7.1 | 8.3 | 5.5 | 3.1 | 1.1 | 2.2 | 5.7 | 8.8 | 10.7 | 10.5 | 78.1 |
Source: Meteociel[4] |
Population[edit]
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1968 | 448 | — |
1975 | 355 | −3.27% |
1982 | 290 | −2.85% |
1990 | 324 | +1.40% |
1999 | 326 | +0.07% |
2009 | 349 | +0.68% |
2014 | 351 | +0.11% |
2020 | 372 | +0.97% |
Source: INSEE[5] |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ Satellite photo
- ^ "Normales et records pour Sollacaro (2A)". Meteociel. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE