Skadar Lake basin

Skadar Lake basin is a Wine region in Montenegro.

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

Key facts

Type

Wine region (2017 decision)

Area

353,532 ha registered outline

Centre

42.3631° N, 19.1126° E

Legal basis

Decision on wine-growing regions, Official Gazette 65/2017. Sub-regions are not listed by municipality.

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

15 km south-west of Podgorica

Nearest city

46 km north-west of Shkodër 95,553 people

To the sea

23 km

Rivers nearby

Morača (6 km)

Lakes nearby

Skadar (6.1 km)

Same latitude

Khvanchkara (Georgia), Xinjiang (Turpan, Manas, Yanqi) (China), Rogue Valley (United States), Lake Erie North Shore (Canada)

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

Terrain

Elevation

0–2,274 m

Mean elevation

639 m

Measured over the whole outline on 70,055 elevation cells of about 226 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Sources

geoBoundaries MNE ADM1 (2017) (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0)