Vinchina

Appellation

Vinchina is a IG of La Rioja in Argentina.

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Key facts

Type: IG (department)
Area: 1,143,061 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre: 28.3456° S, 68.5296° 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: 100 km west of Tinogasta
Nearest city: 135 km north-west of Chilecito 42,248 people
To the sea: 247 km
Same latitude: Free State (South Africa)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 1,362–6,762 m
Mean elevation: 3,598 m

Measured over the whole outline on 158,830 elevation cells of about 269 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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