Muralto

Geschichte

Muralto is a municipality in the district of Locarno, in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.GeographyMuralto has an area, of 0.6km2. Of this area, 0.43km2 or 71.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.02km2 or 3.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.56km2 or 93.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.01km2 or 1.7% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 68.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 18.3%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 6.7%. Out of the forested land, 1.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 1.7% is used for growing crops, while 1.7% is used for orchards or vine crops and 68.3% is used for alpine pastures.The municipality is located in the Locarno district, in the agglomeration of Locarno. It lies along Lake Maggiore and is bordered by the Ramogna and Rabissale streams. It was created in 1881, when it separated from Orselina.DemographicsMuralto has a population of., 26.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of -1.1%.Most of the population speaks Italian (68.4%), with German being second most common (19.9%) and Macedonian being third (2.8%). Of the Swiss national languages, 533 speak German, 55 people speak French, 1,830 people speak Italian, and 6 people speak Romansh. The remainder (252 people) speak another language.