Aragatsotn

Aragatsotn is a Wine region in Armenia.

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

Key facts

Type

Wine region

Area

272,123 ha registered outline

Centre

40.4638° N, 44.2976° E

Legal basis

Armenia has no registered wine GIs yet (Vayots Dzor is the candidate). Regions follow the marzer.

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

19 km north of Ashtarak

Nearest city

37 km north of Yerevan 1,144,700 people

To the sea

258 km

Same latitude

Primitivo di Manduria Dolce Naturale (Italy), Calzadilla (Spain), Bairrada (Portugal), Central Delaware Valley (United States), Νάουσα (Greece)

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

Terrain

Elevation

872–4,001 m

Mean elevation

1,822 m

Measured over the whole outline on 50,633 elevation cells of about 233 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Sources

geoBoundaries ARM ADM1 (2005) (Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic)