Famatina

Appellation

Famatina is a IG of La Rioja in Argentina.

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Key facts

Type: IG (department)
Area: 417,276 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre: 28.6422° S, 67.5560° W
Also registered as: Valle de Chañarmuyo
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: 58 km north of Chilecito
Nearest city: 109 km north-west of La Rioja 178,872 people
To the sea: 348 km
Same latitude: Free State (South Africa), Granite Belt (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 977–6,068 m
Mean elevation: 2,060 m

Measured over the whole outline on 58,653 elevation cells of about 268 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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