Metropolitana

Wine region

Metropolitana is a Wine region in Uruguay.

The departments around Montevideo, chiefly Canelones, where most Uruguayan wine is made. Tannat is the national grape.

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Key facts

Type: Wine region (INAVI)
Area: 1,005,993 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre: 34.3860° S, 56.7711° W
Legal basis: Uruguay has no legally delimited wine GIs (Decreto 283/993 sets up a register only). These are INAVI's descriptive regions, by department.

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: 7.4 km south-west of San José de Mayo
Nearest city: 63 km north-west of Las Piedras 69,682 people
To the sea: 30 km
Same latitude: Walker Bay (South Africa), Barossa Valley (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 0–202 m
Mean elevation: 51 m

Measured over the whole outline on 159,468 elevation cells of about 252 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Sources

geoBoundaries URY ADM1 (2017) (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0)

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