Corippo is a village and former municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

With a population of just 12 inhabitants in July 2018,[3] and dropping to 9 by December 2019[4] it was the smallest municipality in Switzerland.

Despite this, it possessed the trappings of communities many times its size: an official website (www.corippo.ch), its own coat of arms, a village church, a restaurant, and a mayor who led a town council consisting of three local citizens.

The houses are built from the local Ticino granite with slate roofs and have changed little for several hundred years, leading the Italian writer Piero Bianconi to describe Corippo as "Verzasca's gentlest village".

Corippo was originally part of the larger parish and commune of Vogorno (though maintaining a certain degree of autonomy), before becoming a fully independent municipality in 1822.

Depopulation has been a long-standing problem of the commune as scarceness of agricultural resources has driven the inhabitants, historically farmers and herdsmen, to move out to more populated areas, and within the last hundred and fifty years the village census has declined by over 94%.

[8] The village is located in the Locarno district, on the western slope of the Verzasca valley, above the lake.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent a chamois sable statant on a coupeaux vert.

[11] The historical population is given in the following table:[7] The entire village of Corippo is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[15] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the Ticino League which received 38.46% of the vote.

[16] In the 2007[update] Gran Consiglio election, there were a total of 18 registered voters in Corippo, of which 12 or 66.7% voted.

[17] In the 2007[update] Consiglio di Stato election, the most popular party was the CVP which received 5 or 41.7% of the vote.

[11] As of September 2017[update], the mayor was the only resident still employed, the other 15 being retired, and it was planned to restore some of the many vacant houses in the village and create an albergo diffuso.