Sollacaro | |
Native Name: | Suddacarò |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Arrondissement: | Sartène |
Canton: | Taravo-Ornano |
Insee: | 2A284 |
Postal Code: | 20140 |
Mayor: | Jean Jacques Bartoli[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Coordinates: | 41.7433°N 8.9114°W |
Elevation M: | 450 |
Elevation Min M: | 0 |
Elevation Max M: | 814 |
Area Km2: | 23.89 |
Sollacaro (in French pronounced as /sɔlakaʁo/; Italian: Sollacarò, pronounced as /it/; Corsican: Suddacarò) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.
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[2] except for the Torre and adjacent neighbourhoods situated on a rocky spur.
Sollacaro is 25km (16miles) southeast from the prefecture, Ajaccio, 14km (09miles) north of the subprefecture Sartène and 8km (05miles) north of Propriano.
Sollacaro has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa). The average annual temperature in Sollacaro is . The average annual rainfall is with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around, and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Sollacaro was on 23 July 2009; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 2 January 2002.