Sutherland-Karoo

Appellation

Sutherland-Karoo is a Wine of Origin district of Northern Cape in South Africa.

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Key facts

Type: Wine of Origin district
Within: Northern Cape
Area: 3,023,077 ha registered outline
Centre: 31.6696° S, 21.2678° 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: 146 km north-west of Beaufort West
Nearest city: 278 km north of George 188,580 people
To the sea: 281 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: 392–1,850 m
Mean elevation: 1,216 m

Measured over the whole outline on 112,884 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.

Sources

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

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