Quebrada de Humahuaca

Wine region

Quebrada de Humahuaca is a IG in Argentina.

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The map shows the official outline with relief, 3D terrain, slope and exposure, climate and soil.

Key facts

Type: IG
Area: 895,300 ha registered outline
Centre: 23.3360° S, 65.4554° 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 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: 18 km south-west of Humahuaca
Nearest city: 97 km north of San Salvador de Jujuy 257,970 people
To the sea: 497 km

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

Terrain

Elevation: 938–5,633 m
Mean elevation: 3,582 m

Measured over the whole outline on 115,061 elevation cells of about 281 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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