Cape Town

Appellation

Cape Town is a Wine of Origin district of Coastal Region in South Africa.

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Key facts

Type: Wine of Origin district
Within: Coastal Region
Area: 244,679 ha registered outline
Centre: 33.9147° S, 18.5827° E
Legal basis: Wine of Origin Scheme (Liquor Products Act 60 of 1989); areas published in the Government Gazette and administered by SAWIS.

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: 9.4 km north-east of Athlone
Nearest city: 14 km west of Kraaifontein 57,911 people
To the sea: 10 km
Same latitude: Valle de Uco (Argentina), Clare Valley (Australia), Valle de Leyda (Chile), Oceánica (Uruguay)

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

Terrain

Elevation: -11–1,544 m
Mean elevation: 132 m

Measured over the whole outline on 38,707 elevation cells of about 254 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Inside Cape Town · 2

ConstantiaSub-zone
DurbanvilleSub-zone

Wineries · 13

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Sources

geoBoundaries ZAF ADM3 (2020) (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO))

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