Personico is a municipality in the district of Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

Between 1962 and 1967, the hydroelectric plant of Nuova Biaschina and dam in the Val d'Ambra was built.

[3] Personico has an area, as of 1997[update], of 39.04 square kilometers (15.07 sq mi).

Out of the forested land, 48.8% of the total land area is heavily forested, while 12.9% is covered in small trees and shrubbery and 2.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or a chamois' head couped Sable and in chief two mullets Gules.

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks Italian (95.5%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 1.7%) and German being third ( 0.8%).

[7] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Personico is; 33 children or 9.0% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 41 teenagers or 11.2% are between 10 and 19.

[8] The historical population is given in the following table:[3][13] The Centrale Elettrica Comandi Biaschina (the Biaschina power plant control station) is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

[14] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 36.72% of the vote.

The next three most popular parties were the CVP (32.81%), the SP (18.53%) and the Ticino League (9.15%).

In the federal election, a total of 115 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 47.3%.

[15] In the 2007[update] Gran Consiglio election, there were a total of 245 registered voters in Personico, of which 162 or 66.1% voted.

[8] There were 154 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 33.8% of the workforce.

[18] From the 2000 census[update], 306 or 86.7% were Roman Catholic, while 3 or 0.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

In the lower secondary school system, students either attend a two-year middle school followed by a two-year pre-apprenticeship or they attend a four-year program to prepare for higher education.

The upper secondary school includes several options, but at the end of the upper secondary program, a student will be prepared to enter a trade or to continue on to a university or college.

In Ticino, vocational students may either attend school while working on their internship or apprenticeship (which takes three or four years) or may attend school followed by an internship or apprenticeship (which takes one year as a full-time student or one and a half to two years as a part-time student).