Overberg

Appellation

Overberg is a Wine of Origin district of Cape South Coast in South Africa.

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Key facts

Type: Wine of Origin district
Within: Cape South Coast
Area: 325,935 ha registered outline
Centre: 34.1540° S, 19.4789° 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: 9.7 km north-east of Caledon
Nearest city: 37 km north-east of Hermanus 56,139 people
To the sea: 33 km
Same latitude: Metropolitana (Uruguay), Valle de Uco (Argentina), Riverland (Australia), Valle de Colchagua (Chile)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 10–1,626 m
Mean elevation: 374 m

Measured over the whole outline on 51,384 elevation cells of about 253 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Wineries · 1

Villiersdorp Winery

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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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