Vayots Dzor

Vayots Dzor is a Wine region in Armenia.

The map shows the official outline with relief, 3D terrain, slope and exposure, climate and soil.

Key facts

Type

Wine region

Area

227,392 ha registered outline

Centre

39.7514° N, 45.3978° E

Legal basis

Armenia has no registered wine GIs yet (Vayots Dzor is the candidate). Regions follow the marzer.

Outline: Built from the administrative units that contain the area. The legal boundary follows other lines (roads, rivers, farms or altitude), so the real area is smaller.

Where it is

Nearest town

5.8 km south-east of Yeghegnadzor

Nearest city

60 km north of Naxçıvan 97,200 people

To the sea

311 km

Same latitude

Campo de La Guardia (Spain), Dos Rios (United States), Ζίτσα (Greece), Encostas d’Aire (Portugal), Campidano di Terralba (Italy)

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

Terrain

Elevation

952–3,366 m

Mean elevation

2,056 m

Measured over the whole outline on 165,522 elevation cells of about 118 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Sources

geoBoundaries ARM ADM1 (2005) (Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic)