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San Carlos (Mendoza)

Appellation

San Carlos (Mendoza) is a IG of Mendoza in Argentina.

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Key facts

Type
IG (department)
Within
Mendoza
Area
1,152,638 ha registered outline
Centre
34.0802° S, 69.1438° W
Also registered as
Cordón el Cepillo
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
35 km south-west of San Carlos
Nearest city
57 km south-west of Tunuyán 38,367 people
To the sea
237 km
Same latitude
Constantia (South Africa), Riverland (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation
694–5,332 m
Mean elevation
1,938 m

Measured over the whole outline on 180,908 elevation cells of about 253 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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