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Valle de Uco

Wine region

Valle de Uco is a IG in Argentina.

High valley south-west of Mendoza (Tupungato, Tunuyán and San Carlos), with vineyards from about 900 m to over 1,500 m. Cool nights and alluvial soils.

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Key facts

Type: IG (regional)
Area: 1,735,968 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre: 33.8533° S, 69.0882° 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: 9.7 km south-west of San Carlos
Nearest city: 31 km south-west of Tunuyán 38,367 people
To the sea: 237 km
Same latitude: Clare Valley (Australia), Franschhoek (South Africa)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 692–6,496 m
Mean elevation: 2,188 m

Measured over the whole outline on 67,978 elevation cells of about 508 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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