Quenza
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Quenza | |
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Coordinates: 41°46′00″N 9°08′22″E / 41.7667°N 9.1394°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Corsica |
Department | Corse-du-Sud |
Arrondissement | Sartène |
Canton | Sartenais-Valinco |
Intercommunality | l'Alta Rocca |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Roselyne Balesi[1] |
Area 1 | 95.67 km2 (36.94 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | 190 |
• Density | 2.0/km2 (5.1/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 2A254 /20122 |
Elevation | 134–2,134 m (440–7,001 ft) (avg. 805 m or 2,641 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Quenza (Corsican pronunciation: [ˈkwɛnt͡sa], French: [kwɛntsa]) is a commune in the department of Corse-du-Sud, island and collectivity of Corsica, France.
Geography
[edit]Climate
[edit]Quenza has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa) closely bordering on a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Csb). The average annual temperature in Quenza is 12.9 °C (55.2 °F). The average annual rainfall is 1,395.1 mm (54.93 in) with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 22.3 °C (72.1 °F), and lowest in January, at around 5.2 °C (41.4 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Quenza was 38.0 °C (100.4 °F) on 3 August 2017; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −7.3 °C (18.9 °F) on 7 February 2012.
Climate data for Quenza (1991−2020 normals, extremes 2009−present) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 18.9 (66.0) | 21.1 (70.0) | 22.4 (72.3) | 28.0 (82.4) | 30.7 (87.3) | 36.5 (97.7) | 37.8 (100.0) | 38.0 (100.4) | 33.0 (91.4) | 28.4 (83.1) | 23.9 (75.0) | 20.6 (69.1) | 38.0 (100.4) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 8.9 (48.0) | 9.5 (49.1) | 12.2 (54.0) | 16.2 (61.2) | 19.2 (66.6) | 24.1 (75.4) | 27.7 (81.9) | 28.5 (83.3) | 23.2 (73.8) | 18.9 (66.0) | 13.5 (56.3) | 10.2 (50.4) | 17.7 (63.9) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 5.2 (41.4) | 5.4 (41.7) | 7.7 (45.9) | 11.3 (52.3) | 14.1 (57.4) | 18.5 (65.3) | 21.7 (71.1) | 22.3 (72.1) | 17.8 (64.0) | 14.1 (57.4) | 9.6 (49.3) | 6.5 (43.7) | 12.9 (55.2) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 1.6 (34.9) | 1.3 (34.3) | 3.2 (37.8) | 6.4 (43.5) | 9.0 (48.2) | 13.0 (55.4) | 15.7 (60.3) | 16.1 (61.0) | 12.4 (54.3) | 9.3 (48.7) | 5.7 (42.3) | 2.7 (36.9) | 8.0 (46.4) |
Record low °C (°F) | −5.7 (21.7) | −7.3 (18.9) | −4.7 (23.5) | −4.5 (23.9) | 0.7 (33.3) | 4.7 (40.5) | 8.7 (47.7) | 7.7 (45.9) | 4.6 (40.3) | −0.2 (31.6) | −3.4 (25.9) | −6.6 (20.1) | −7.3 (18.9) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 157.8 (6.21) | 153.4 (6.04) | 139.2 (5.48) | 79.3 (3.12) | 92.1 (3.63) | 65.0 (2.56) | 37.3 (1.47) | 26.1 (1.03) | 79.2 (3.12) | 123.0 (4.84) | 245.9 (9.68) | 196.8 (7.75) | 1,395.1 (54.93) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 12.3 | 10.6 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 8.6 | 6.1 | 3.1 | 2.3 | 6.0 | 8.3 | 12.3 | 11.5 | 100.4 |
Source: Météo-France[3] |
Population
[edit]Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1968 | 307 | — |
1975 | 302 | −0.23% |
1982 | 229 | −3.88% |
1990 | 214 | −0.84% |
1999 | 215 | +0.05% |
2009 | 210 | −0.24% |
2014 | 191 | −1.88% |
2020 | 195 | +0.35% |
Source: INSEE[4] |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ "Fiche Climatologique Statistiques 1991-2020 et records" (PDF) (in French). Météo-France. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE