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Capolago

village and former municipality in Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland
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Summary

Capolago is a village[1]. Capolago ranks in the top 0.45% of village entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (250 views/month, #228 of 50,837).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Mendrisio[3]
  • Country: Switzerland[4]
  • Located in or next to body of water: Lake Lugano[5]
  • Instance of: former municipality of Switzerland[6], neighborhood[7]
  • Postal code: 6825[8]
  • Commons category: Capolago (Mendrisio)[9]
  • Patron saint: Mary Magdalene[10]
  • Local dialing code: 091[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Capolago (Mendrisio)[12]
  • Population: 881[13]
  • Replaced by: Mendrisio[14]
  • Official name: Capolago[15]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Capolago, Switzerland[16]
  • Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Capolago, Switzerland[17]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Capolago, Switzerland[18]
  • Elevation above sea level: 273 m[19]
  • Area: 1.77 km²[20]
  • Has list: Liste von Persönlichkeiten aus Capolago[21]

Why It Matters

Capolago has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] Capolago is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

Carlo Maderno Mary Magdalene Switzerland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . mendrisio.ch. Retrieved . mendrisio.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Historicized municipal directory of Switzerland. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 14
    Wikipedia languages → ['ceb', 'de', 'en', 'fr', 'it', 'lmo', 'nl', 'pt', 'rm', 'simple', 'sv', 'vec']
    Official name → {'lang': 'it', 'text': 'Capolago'}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Official name: Capolago, official name from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  2. 11w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category for people who died here → Category:Deaths in Capolago, Switzerland
    Instance of → —
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 45.902816666667, 'lon': 8.9794972222222}
    Category for people born here → Category:Births in Capolago, Switzerland
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/43521|batch #43521]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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