Las Heras

Las Heras is a IG of Mendoza in Argentina.

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

Key facts

Type

IG (department)

Within

Mendoza

Area

887,536 ha registered outline

Centre

32.5221° S, 69.2072° W

Also registered as

Canota - Valle de Canota

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

53 km north-west of Mendoza

Nearest city

93 km north-west of San Martín 82,549 people

To the sea

207 km

Same latitude

Hunter (Australia), Western Cape (South Africa)

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

Terrain

Elevation

550–6,817 m

Mean elevation

2,494 m

Measured over the whole outline on 134,849 elevation cells of about 258 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))