Jáchal

Appellation

Jáchal is a IG of San Juan in Argentina.

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Key facts

Type: IG (department)
Within: San Juan
Area: 1,437,640 ha registered outline
Centre: 30.3031° S, 68.4565° W
Legal basis: Ley 25.163 (1999) and INV resolutions (C.32/2002, C.37/2002 and later); official INV list of 18 April 2024 plus the 2025 IGs.

Outline: Built from the administrative units that the legal definition names.

Where it is

Nearest town: 29 km south-east of San José de Jáchal
Nearest city: 142 km north of Rawson 130,258 people
To the sea: 276 km
Same latitude: Northern Slopes (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 646–4,799 m
Mean elevation: 1,302 m

Measured over the whole outline on 207,974 elevation cells of about 264 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Sources

geoBoundaries ARG ADM2 (2020) (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO))

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