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thumb|250px|2003 map with Peccia.
Peccia is one of six municipalities in the canton of Ticino (Switzerland) which merged in April 2004 to form the commune of Lavizzara, with about 1000 people. The other municipalities were Broglio, Brontallo, Fusio, Menzonio, and Prato-Sornico.
The fractions of Peccia are: Veglia (Véia), Cortignelli, San Carlo and Piano di Peccia.
thumb|Cortignelli with Pizzo Castello and La Rossa
History
Peccia is first mentioned in 1374 as Petia.
The village is located in the Vallemaggia district, about from Locarno. It consists of several settlements scattered throughout the Peccia valley. The main village is located at an elevation of in the Valle Maggia.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent a fir tree issuant from a mount vert.
It is also a surname in Italy. For example, past mayor of Olevano sul Tusciano, was Luigi Peccia.
Demographics
Peccia has a population () of 171.
Most of the population () speaks Italian language (161 or 94.2%), with German being second most common (5 or 2.9%) and Portuguese being third (3 or 1.8%). There are 2 people who speak French and people who speak Romansh.
There were 12 households that consist of only one person and 7 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 65 households that answered this question, 18.5% were households made up of just one person and 4 were adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 16 married couples without children, 22 married couples with children There were 6 single parents with a child or children. There were 4 households that were made up unrelated people and 1 household that was made some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 162 apartments in the village. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 46. There were 10 single room apartments and 60 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 63 apartments (38.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 97 apartments (59.9%) were seasonally occupied and 2 apartments (1.2%) were empty.
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Economy
thumb|Cattle in the mountains above Peccia
There were 64 residents of the village who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 23.4% of the workforce. , there were 26 workers who commuted into the village and 30 workers who commuted away. The village is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.2 workers leaving the village for every one entering.
Religion
From the , 159 or 93.0% were Roman Catholic, while 2 or 1.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 3 individuals (or about 1.75% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church. There were 2 (or about 1.17% of the population) who belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 5 individuals (or about 2.92% of the population) did not answer the question.