Pocito

Appellation

Pocito is a IG of San Juan in Argentina.

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Key facts

Type: IG (department)
Within: San Juan
Area: 56,892 ha registered outline
Centre: 31.7368° S, 68.5841° 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: around the town of Pocito
Nearest city: 18 km south-west of Rawson 130,258 people
To the sea: 276 km
Rivers nearby: San Juan (21 km)
Same latitude: Olifants River (South Africa), Greater Perth (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 556–2,244 m
Mean elevation: 786 m

Measured over the whole outline on 135,593 elevation cells of about 65 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Wineries · 1

El Encuentro

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Sources

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

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