Constantia

Sub-zone

Constantia is a Wine of Origin ward of Cape Town in South Africa. It lies around the town of Constantia and 11 km south of Cape Town.

The oldest wine area of the Cape, on the slopes of the Constantiaberg south of Cape Town. Its sweet Vin de Constance was famous in 18th- and 19th-century Europe.

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Key facts

Type: Wine of Origin ward
Within: Cape Town
Centre: 34.0250° S, 18.4300° E
Legal basis: Wine of Origin Scheme (Liquor Products Act 60 of 1989); areas published in the Government Gazette and administered by SAWIS.

Outline: Shown as a point at the place it is named after. The registered area is much smaller than any administrative unit, and its boundary is not yet available as open data.

Where it is

Nearest town: around the town of Constantia
Nearest city: 11 km south of Cape Town 4,772,846 people
To the sea: 7.4 km
Same latitude: Valle de Uco (Argentina), Margaret River (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.

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