La Serena

Sub-zone

La Serena is a DO area of Valle del Elqui in Chile.

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Key facts

Type: DO area (área)
Within: Valle del Elqui
Area: 190,308 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre: 29.8364° S, 71.0939° 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: 17 km east of La Serena
Nearest city: 27 km east of Coquimbo 161,317 people
To the sea: 18 km
Same latitude: Far North (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 0–2,590 m
Mean elevation: 790 m

Measured over the whole outline on 435,334 elevation cells of about 66 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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