Portimão

Appellation

Portimão is an appellation in Portugal in Alvor, Mexilhoeira Grande and Portimão. Regional bedrock: metamorphic rocks.

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Key facts

Type: DOP (DOC)
Category: Wine
Protected since: 1991-12-24
Area: 18,206 ha registered outline
Extent N–S × E–W: 18.95 × 17.69 km
Centre: 37.1981° N, 8.5947° W
Grapes: Alicante Bouschet, Aragonez, Arinto, Cabernet Sauvignon, Castelão, Manteúdo, Monvedro, Moscatel Graúdo, Negra Mole, Perrum, Rabo De Ovelha, Syrah, Síria, Touriga Nacional, Trincadeira
Max yield: 60 hl/ha

Where it is

Nearest town: 8.3 km north-west of Portimão
Nearest city: 13 km north-east of Lagos 33,494 people
To the sea: 8.3 km
Same latitude: Yantai (China), Santa Cruz Mountains (United States)

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

Terrain

Elevation: -1–343 m
Mean elevation: 66 m
Mean slope: 7.9° (14 %)
Steepest tenth: above 17°
Faces: several directions, mostly south-west

Measured over the whole outline on 197,903 elevation cells of about 30 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Bedrock

Metamorphic rocks (schist, slate, gneiss)49%
Siliciclastic sedimentary rocks (sandstone, shale)22%
Carbonate sedimentary rocks (limestone, marl, dolomite)12%

Regional bedrock from the GLiM global lithological map (Hartmann and Moosdorf 2012), not a soil survey.

Communes · 3

Alvor
Mexilhoeira Grande
Portimão

Sources

EU register of geographical indications

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