Douglas

Douglas is a Wine of Origin district of Northern Cape in South Africa.

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

Key facts

Type

Wine of Origin district

Within

Northern Cape

Area

1,675,349 ha registered outline

Centre

29.0560° S, 23.4433° 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

88 km south of Postmasburg

Nearest city

133 km west of Kimberley 142,089 people

To the sea

548 km

Rivers nearby

Orange (16 km) · Vaal (18 km)

Same latitude

Vale dos Vinhedos (Brazil), Valles del Famatina (Argentina), Valle del Huasco (Chile), Granite Belt (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation

856–1,667 m

Mean elevation

1,168 m

Measured over the whole outline on 59,442 elevation cells of about 534 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))