Canterbury

Canterbury is a GI in New Zealand.

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

Key facts

Type

GI (Geographical Indications (Wine and Spirits) Registration Act 2006)

Area

4,092,598 ha registered outline

Centre

43.4238° S, 171.6587° E

Legal basis

Registered with IPONZ. The registered boundaries are drawn on maps; the units here are the districts that contain them.

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

61 km north-west of Rolleston

Nearest city

80 km west of Christchurch 419,200 people

To the sea

72 km

Rivers nearby

Rakaia (4.9 km)

Lakes nearby

Coleridge (11 km)

Same latitude

Patagonia - Patagonia Argentina (Argentina)

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

Terrain

Elevation

-2–3,547 m

Mean elevation

652 m

Measured over the whole outline on 209,344 elevation cells of about 444 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Inside Canterbury · 1

• North CanterburySub-zone

Wineries · 1

• Pyramid Valley Vineyards

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Sources

geoBoundaries NZL ADM2 (2021) (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0))