Molinos

Appellation

Molinos is a IG of Salta in Argentina.

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Key facts

Type: IG (department)
Within: Salta
Area: 366,394 ha registered outline
Centre: 25.5753° S, 66.4562° W
Legal basis: Ley 25.163 (1999) and INV resolutions (C.32/2002, C.37/2002 and later); official INV list of 18 April 2024 plus the 2025 IGs.

Outline: Built from the administrative units that the legal definition names.

Where it is

Nearest town: 73 km north-west of Cafayate
Nearest city: 135 km south-west of Salta 520,683 people
To the sea: 401 km

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation: 1,973–5,714 m
Mean elevation: 3,397 m

Measured over the whole outline on 48,771 elevation cells of about 276 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Sources

geoBoundaries ARG ADM2 (2020) (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO))

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