Sobrio

Geschichte

Sobrio is a former municipality in the district of Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 10 April 2016 it merged into the municipality of Faido.GeographySobrio had an area, of 6.37km2. Of this area, 0.62km2 or 9.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 4.47km2 or 70.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.2km2 or 3.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.69km2 or 10.8% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.5%. Out of the forested land, 64.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 7.1% is used for growing crops and 2.7% is used for alpine pastures. Of the unproductive areas, 6.4% is unproductive vegetation and 4.4% is too rocky for vegetation.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules a cat sejant guardant Argent. The cat on the flag of Sobrio comes from the nickname given to the inhabitants of this municipality."DemographicsSobrio had a population of 80., 2.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 3.8%.Most of the population speaks Italian(79.7%), with German being second most common (18.9%) and French being third ( 1.4%). Of the Swiss national languages, 14 speak German, 1 person speaks French, 59 people speak Italian.