Chilecito

Appellation

Chilecito is a IG of La Rioja in Argentina.

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Key facts

Type: IG (department)
Area: 524,249 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre: 29.4117° S, 67.4211° 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: 29 km south of Chilecito
Nearest city: 55 km west of La Rioja 178,872 people
To the sea: 375 km
Same latitude: Far North (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 672–6,086 m
Mean elevation: 1,537 m

Measured over the whole outline on 297,389 elevation cells of about 133 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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