South Africa · Wine of Origin geographical unit

Eastern Cape

Wine region

Eastern Cape is a Wine of Origin geographical unit 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 geographical unit
Area: 16,896,558 ha registered outline
Centre: 32.1074° S, 26.5905° 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 the legal definition names.

Where it is

Nearest town: 23 km north-west of Whittlesea
Nearest city: 36 km south-west of Queenstown 118,599 people
To the sea: 153 km
Rivers nearby: Great Kei (9.3 km)
Same latitude: Hunter (Australia), Córdoba Argentina (Argentina), Norte (Uruguay), Salamanca (Chile)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 0–2,896 m
Mean elevation: 968 m

Measured over the whole outline on 158,974 elevation cells of about 1,036 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Sources

geoBoundaries ZAF ADM1 (2020) (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO))

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