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Cafayate - Valle de Cafayate

Appellation

Cafayate - Valle de Cafayate is a IG of Salta in Argentina.

The best-known part of the Calchaquí valleys, around 1,700 m, sandy and dry. Home of aromatic Torrontés.
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Key facts

Type
IG (department)
Within
Salta
Area
156,827 ha registered outline
Centre
26.1107° S, 65.9418° 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
around the town of Cafayate
Nearest city
107 km north-west of San Miguel de Tucumán 548,866 people
To the sea
459 km

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

Terrain

Elevation
1,415–5,271 m
Mean elevation
2,372 m

Measured over the whole outline on 84,070 elevation cells of about 137 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Wineries · 10

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Sources

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

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