Prince Albert Valley

Prince Albert Valley is a Wine of Origin ward of Western Cape in South Africa.

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

Key facts

Type

Wine of Origin ward

Within

Western Cape

Area

815,234 ha registered outline

Centre

32.9929° S, 22.1220° E

Legal basis

Wine of Origin Scheme (Liquor Products Act 60 of 1989); areas published in the Government Gazette and administered by SAWIS.

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

27 km north-east of Prince Albert

Nearest city

68 km north of Oudtshoorn 73,694 people

To the sea

119 km

Rivers nearby

Gamka (14 km)

Same latitude

Luján de Cuyo (Argentina), Valle del Aconcagua (Chile), Central Ranges (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation

314–2,094 m

Mean elevation

774 m

Measured over the whole outline on 124,935 elevation cells of about 256 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Sources

geoBoundaries ZAF ADM3 (2020) (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO))