Ararat

Ararat 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

192,681 ha registered outline

Centre

39.9365° N, 44.7940° 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

6.8 km east of Vedi

Nearest city

36 km south-east of Yerevan 1,144,700 people

To the sea

327 km

Rivers nearby

Aras (18 km)

Same latitude

Dominio de Valdepusa (Spain), Vernaccia di Oristano (Italy), Λήμνος (Greece), Cumberland Valley (United States), Beira Interior (Portugal)

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

Terrain

Elevation

796–3,434 m

Mean elevation

1,434 m

Measured over the whole outline on 140,995 elevation cells of about 117 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)