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Olifants River

Wine region

Olifants River is a Wine of Origin region of Western 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 region
Within
Western Cape
Area
2,098,838 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre
31.6549° S, 18.6143° 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
11 km east of Vredendal
Nearest city
163 km north-east of Saldanha 68,284 people
To the sea
39 km
Rivers nearby
Olifants (9.6 km)
Same latitude
Valle del Tulum (Argentina), Greater Perth (Australia), Norte (Uruguay), Valle del Choapa (Chile)

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

Terrain

Elevation
-1–1,873 m
Mean elevation
365 m

Measured over the whole outline on 78,380 elevation cells of about 520 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

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Sources

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

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