Central Orange River

Appellation

Central Orange River is a Wine of Origin ward of Northern Cape in South Africa.

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

Key facts

Type: Wine of Origin ward
Within: Northern Cape
Area: 10,000,331 ha registered outline
Centre: 27.4203° S, 21.3352° E
Legal basis: Wine of Origin Scheme (Liquor Products Act 60 of 1989); areas published in the Government Gazette and administered by SAWIS.

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: 114 km north of Upington
Nearest city: 198 km north-west of Postmasburg 30,089 people
To the sea: 481 km
Same latitude: Catamarca (Argentina), Vinhos de Altitude de Santa Catarina (Brazil), Valle de Copiapó (Chile)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 407–1,779 m
Mean elevation: 954 m

Measured over the whole outline on 86,936 elevation cells of about 1,085 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Sources

geoBoundaries ZAF ADM3 (2020) (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO))

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