Balcarce

Appellation

Balcarce is a IG of Buenos Aires in Argentina.

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Key facts

Type: IG (department)
Area: 412,110 ha registered outline
Centre: 37.7463° S, 58.1897° W
Legal basis: Ley 25.163 (1999) and INV resolutions (C.32/2002, C.37/2002 and later); official INV list of 18 April 2024 plus the 2025 IGs.

Outline: Built from the administrative units that the legal definition names.

Where it is

Nearest town: 12 km north-east of Balcarce
Nearest city: 62 km north-west of Mar del Plata 593,337 people
To the sea: 68 km
Same latitude: Yarra Valley (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 34–386 m
Mean elevation: 107 m

Measured over the whole outline on 283,047 elevation cells of about 121 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Sources

geoBoundaries ARG ADM2 (2020) (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO))

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