Tavush

Tavush is a Wine region in Armenia.

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

Key facts

Type

Wine region

Area

268,542 ha registered outline

Centre

40.9671° N, 44.9928° E

Legal basis

Armenia has no registered wine GIs yet (Vayots Dzor is the candidate). Regions follow the marzer.

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

16 km north-west of Ijevan

Nearest city

45 km east of Vanadzor 78,100 people

To the sea

285 km

Same latitude

Vermentino di Gallura (Italy), Priorat (Spain), Pelagonija-Polog (North Macedonia), The Hamptons, Long Island (United States), Távora-Varosa (Portugal)

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

Terrain

Elevation

430–2,978 m

Mean elevation

1,399 m

Measured over the whole outline on 202,342 elevation cells of about 115 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Sources

geoBoundaries ARM ADM1 (2005) (Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic)