Machalí

Sub-zone

Machalí is a DO area of Valle del Cachapoal in Chile.

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Key facts

Type: DO area (área)
Within: Valle del Cachapoal
Area: 259,518 ha registered outline
Centre: 34.3572° S, 70.2369° 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: 51 km south-east of Rancagua
Nearest city: 43 km south-east of Machalí 42,572 people
To the sea: 151 km
Same latitude: Walker Bay (South Africa), Riverland (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 502–5,150 m
Mean elevation: 2,547 m

Measured over the whole outline on 163,898 elevation cells of about 126 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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