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Hawke's Bay

Appellation

Hawke's Bay is a GI in New Zealand.

East coast of the North Island, warm and sunny, the country's second-largest region. Syrah and Bordeaux varieties, notably from the Gimblett Gravels, an old riverbed.
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The map shows the official outline with relief, 3D terrain, slope and exposure, climate and soil.

Key facts

Type
GI (Geographical Indications (Wine and Spirits) Registration Act 2006)
Area
1,277,262 ha registered outline
Centre
39.5076° S, 176.6197° E
Legal basis
Registered with IPONZ. The registered boundaries are drawn on maps; the units here are the districts that contain them.

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
20 km west of Taradale
Nearest city
24 km north-west of Hastings 88,300 people
To the sea
25 km
Rivers nearby
Tutaekuri (5 km) · Ngaruroro (11 km)
Same latitude
Río Negro (Argentina)

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

Terrain

Elevation
-1–1,677 m
Mean elevation
372 m

Measured over the whole outline on 58,035 elevation cells of about 472 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Inside Hawke's Bay · 1

Wineries · 6

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Sources

geoBoundaries NZL ADM2 (2021) (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0))

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