Vale do São Francisco

Appellation

Vale do São Francisco is a IP in Brazil.

Tropical irrigated vineyards around Petrolina at about 9° south, which can harvest more than once a year.

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Key facts

Type: IP (2022)
Area: 2,501,372 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre: 9.0869° S, 41.0040° W
Legal basis: Recognised by INPI (Lei 9.279/1996). The specifications delimit the area by maps; the outline is the municipalities it touches.

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: 10 km north of Casa Nova
Nearest city: 65 km north-west of Petrolina 386,791 people
To the sea: 460 km
Lakes nearby: Sobradinho (0 km)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 315–810 m
Mean elevation: 436 m

Measured over the whole outline on 69,766 elevation cells of about 604 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Wineries · 4

Fazenda Sereníssima
Vinicola Rio Sol - Entrada
Vitivinicola Château Ducos
Vitivinicola Rio Sol

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Sources

geoBoundaries BRA ADM2 (2020) (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO))

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