Skrapar municipality

Skrapar Skrapari ( Designation in an indefinite and definite form )
Coordinates: 40 ° 30 '  N , 20 ° 14'  E
Basic data
Qark :	Advises
Municipality :	Skrapar
Area :	831.44 km²
Bashkia residents :	12,403 (2011)
Population density (Bashkia):	15 inhabitants / km²
Telephone code :	(+355) 0312
Postal code :	5401-5402
Politics and administration (as of 2019 )
Mayor :	Adriatic Mema ( PS )
Website :	www.bashkiaskrapar.gov.al
Location of the municipality of Skrapar

The municipality of Skrapar ( Albanian  Bashkia e Skraparit ) is one of the 61 municipalities ( bashkia ) in Albania . The municipality in the Qark Berat is located in the south of the country around the main town Çorovoda (around 4000 inhabitants; 2011). The municipality has 12,403 inhabitants (2011).

geography

Osum valley near Çorovoda with Tomorr in the background

The community is located on the middle reaches of the Osum south of the city of Berat . It includes the entire former Skrapar district with the exception of Poliçan and the surrounding area. Most of it is remote mountain and hill country that is actually only accessible from the north.

The Osum gorges south of the main town Çorovoda are also famous .

In the north the mountain Tomorr rises ( 2415  m above sea level ). Its lower southern tip is completely in the municipality, the northern tip a little to the north. A large part of the mountain landscape in this region is part of the Tomorr National Park .

Within the municipality, only the area east of the Tomorr is not drained to the Osum, but to the Devoll .

Former parishes

In the summer of 2015, the following parishes were merged to form the municipality of Skrapar :

Communities

Surname	Population (2011)	Community type
Çorovoda	4,051	Bashkia
Bogova	1,098	Komuna
Çepan	740	Komuna
Gjerbës	813	Komuna
Leshnja	496	Komuna
Potom	897	Komuna
Qendër	2,545	Komuna
Vendresha	984	Komuna
Zhepa	779	Komuna

Web links

Commons : Skrapar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Bashkia (Albanian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ines Nurja: Censusi i popullsisë dhe banesave / Population and Housing Census - Berat 2011 . Results Kryesore / Main Results. Ed .: INSTAT . Pjesa / Part 1. Adel Print, Tirana 2013 ( instat.gov.al [PDF; accessed April 14, 2019]).