San Blas de los Sauces

Appellation

San Blas de los Sauces is a IG of La Rioja in Argentina.

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Key facts

Type: IG (department)
Area: 143,762 ha registered outline
Centre: 28.5886° S, 67.1332° 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: 32 km west of Aimogasta
Nearest city: 73 km north-east of Chilecito 42,248 people
To the sea: 386 km
Same latitude: Free State (South Africa), Granite Belt (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 853–4,122 m
Mean elevation: 1,910 m

Measured over the whole outline on 80,638 elevation cells of about 134 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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