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Pago de Otazu

Appellation

Pago de Otazu is an appellation in Spain in Cizur and Etxauri. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks. It lies 7.1 km south-west of Barañáin and 10 km south-west of Pamplona.

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Key facts

Type: DOP
Category: Wine
Protected since: 2009-08-01
Area: 6,657 ha registered outline
Separate plots: 2
Extent N–S × E–W: 12.68 × 15.72 km
Centre: 42.7663° N, 1.7457° W
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Merlot, Tempranillo
Max yield: 46.15 hl/ha
Min planting density: 2,400 vines/ha

Where it is

Nearest town: 7.1 km south-west of Barañáin
Nearest city: 10 km south-west of Pamplona 208,243 people
To the sea: 63 km
Same latitude: Khvanchkara (Georgia), Xinjiang (Turpan, Manas, Yanqi) (China), Cayuga Lake (United States), Short Hills Bench (Canada)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 370–1,127 m
Mean elevation: 588 m
Mean slope: 8.6° (15 %)
Steepest tenth: above 18°
Faces: several directions, mostly north

Measured over the whole outline on 85,327 elevation cells of about 28 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Bedrock

Carbonate sedimentary rocks (limestone, marl, dolomite)48%
Siliciclastic sedimentary rocks (sandstone, shale)47%

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

Communes · 2

Cizur
Etxauri

Sources

EU register of geographical indications

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