Sollacaro is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.

Geography

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 except for the Torre and adjacent neighbourhoods situated on a rocky spur. Sollacaro is 25 km southeast from the prefecture, Ajaccio, 14 km north of the subprefecture Sartène and 8 km north of Propriano.

Climate

Sollacaro has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa). The average annual temperature in Sollacaro is 15.4 C. The average annual rainfall is 729.3 mm with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 23.7 C, and lowest in January, at around 8.6 C. The highest temperature ever recorded in Sollacaro was 43.5 C on 23 July 2009; the coldest temperature ever recorded was -6.2 C on 2 January 2002.

Population