Swellendam

Swellendam is a Wine of Origin district of Cape South Coast 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 district

Within

Cape South Coast

Area

383,677 ha outline of the administrative units

Centre

34.0382° S, 20.4969° 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

around the town of Swellendam

Nearest city

62 km south-east of Robertson 33,204 people

To the sea

46 km

Same latitude

Valle de Uco (Argentina), Metropolitana (Uruguay), Margaret River (Australia), Valle de Leyda (Chile)

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

Terrain

Elevation

0–1,654 m

Mean elevation

371 m

Measured over the whole outline on 60,610 elevation cells of about 253 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Wineries · 1

• Joubert Tradauw

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Sources

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