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Salta

Wine region

Salta is a IG in Argentina.

Northern province whose Calchaquí valleys hold some of the highest vineyards in the world, above 2,000 m in places. Torrontés and intense Malbec.
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Key facts

Type
IG (provincial)
Area
15,535,943 ha registered outline
Centre
24.2084° S, 63.2580° 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
79 km east of Apolinario Saravia
Nearest city
206 km east of San Salvador de Jujuy 257,970 people
To the sea
731 km

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

Terrain

Elevation
187–6,527 m
Mean elevation
1,638 m

Measured over the whole outline on 126,555 elevation cells of about 1,115 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

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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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