Gordevio was a municipality in the district of Vallemaggia in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

[2] The parish church of SS Giacomo e Filippo, is first mentioned in the 13th century.

Due to lack of farming land, emigration (at first mainly to Rome, but in the second half of the 19th century overseas as well) lowered the number of inhabitants.

It consists of two sections, Villa and Brièè, which are separated by the Ri di Gèi stream.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per bend gules two fleurs de lis argent and of the last a cross pattee per saltire azure and of the first and overall a bendlet of the third.

[4] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks Italian language (675 or 84.6%), with German being second most common (80 or 10.0%) and French being third (29 or 3.6%).

[6] The historical population is given in the following chart:[2][7] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 27.17% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 262 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 45.5%.

[8] In the 2007[update] Gran Consiglio election, there were a total of 576 registered voters in Gordevio, of which 358 or 62.2% voted.

[9] There were 318 residents of the village who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.2% of the workforce.

[10] From the 2000 census[update], 632 or 79.2% were Roman Catholic, while 52 or 6.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.