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Coastal Region

Wine region

Coastal Region is a Wine of Origin region of Western Cape in South Africa.

Wine of Origin region that groups the districts close to the Atlantic and False Bay, including Stellenbosch, Paarl, Swartland and Cape Town.
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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 region
Within
Western Cape
Area
1,927,647 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre
33.2662° S, 19.1006° 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
4.4 km north-west of Tulbagh
Nearest city
23 km north-west of Ceres 41,596 people
To the sea
77 km
Rivers nearby
Olifants (17 km)
Same latitude
Valle de Casablanca (Chile), Orange (Australia), Agrelo (Argentina), Litoral Sur (Uruguay)

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

Terrain

Elevation
0–2,173 m
Mean elevation
527 m

Measured over the whole outline on 74,706 elevation cells of about 511 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Inside Coastal Region · 8

Sources

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

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