Syunik

Wine region

Syunik is a Wine region in Armenia.

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

Key facts

Type: Wine region
Area: 446,383 ha registered outline
Centre: 39.3615° N, 46.1287° 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: 25 km south-west of Goris
Nearest city: 29 km north-west of Kapan 32,900 people
To the sea: 239 km
Rivers nearby: Vorotan (10 km)
Same latitude: La Jaraba (Spain), North Yuba (United States), Μεσενικόλα (Greece), Cirò (Italy), Óbidos (Portugal)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 377–3,742 m
Mean elevation: 2,038 m

Measured over the whole outline on 80,435 elevation cells of about 236 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)

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