The Pays d'Auge plateau runs on a north–south axis at a mean elevation of between 120 and 250 metres, bounded to the west by the plains of Caen and Falaise.
The western boundary of the Pays d'Auge follows the geological transition from the Bathonian or Bajocian to the Callovian, marked in the landscape by a cuesta with a relief of around one hundred metres.
The most representative soils of the cider-apple orchards have developed on clay-with-flints and Cenomanian and/or Oxfordian chalk, on sloping positions and at medium to shallow depth.
The oceanic climate of the Pays d'Auge is characterised by a mean annual temperature of 10.3 °C, rainfall of 700 to 850 mm from west to east, and a very moderate summer water deficit.
The natural region is bordered to the north by the English Channel over a length of 50 km, from the mouth of the Orne to the Seine estuary, and extends across three départements: Calvados, Orne, and Eure.
Facts drawn from the specification's terroir-link section by automatic interpretation — see the source.
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Approximate area — the union of the 197 commune(s) of the delimited area (INAO); no parcel delimitation exists for this denomination.
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