Corigliano-Rossano is a comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.

According to some interpretations, the toponym Corigliano derives from Latin Corellianum, meaning "Corellio farm"; according to other hypotheses, the name could be traced back to that of other toponyms of Southern Italy such as Corigliano d'Otranto, and therefore from the Byzantine Greek term "χωρίον" (transliterated choríon), respectively to the etymologically related term "χώρα" (chóra), with the meaning of village, town, farm, land or place, or oil village, from Greek choríon elàion.

The toponym Rossano, on the other hand, derives from Greek rusion, ρύσιον ("who saves") and akron, άκρον ("promontory", "height") from which the medieval versions Ruskia or Ruskiané (Ρουσκιανή) or Rusiànon (Ῥυσινάνάν in Byzantine Greek Greek); according to another hypothesis instead it derives from the Roman family name to which the government of the "Castrum" could have been entrusted and which would have given the name of "Roscianum" to the urban center.

[3] Corigliano-Rossano covers an area of about 346.56 km², is located in the eastern strip of the Sibari plain between the Sila and the Ionian coast.

The territory includes soils of different geological origins, with different characteristics (rocks, clays, sands), which correspond to different types of flora.