Chimbarongo

Sub-zone

Chimbarongo is a DO area of Valle de Colchagua in Chile.

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Key facts

Type: DO area (área)
Within: Valle de Colchagua
Area: 50,807 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre: 34.7392° S, 71.0109° W
Legal basis: Decreto 464/1994 of the Ministry of Agriculture (zonificación vitícola), consolidated text 2026, with the 2025 amendment (Chiloé, Rapa Nui).

Outline: Built from the administrative units that the legal definition names.

Where it is

Nearest town: around the town of Chimbarongo
Nearest city: 34 km north-east of Curicó 102,438 people
To the sea: 96 km
Same latitude: Great Southern (Australia), Walker Bay (South Africa)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 216–2,058 m
Mean elevation: 489 m

Measured over the whole outline on 129,770 elevation cells of about 63 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Sources

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

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