Armavir

Armavir 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

125,967 ha registered outline

Centre

40.1526° N, 44.0498° 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

around the town of Armavir

Nearest city

25 km north of Iğdır 101,700 people

To the sea

263 km

Rivers nearby

Aras (14 km)

Same latitude

Calzadilla (Spain), Primitivo di Manduria Dolce Naturale (Italy), Beira Interior (Portugal), Πλαγιές Μελίτωνα (Greece), Lancaster Valley (United States)

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

Terrain

Elevation

824–1,308 m

Mean elevation

943 m

Measured over the whole outline on 92,760 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)