Marchigüe

Sub-zone

Marchigüe 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: 65,813 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre: 34.3665° S, 71.6417° 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: 19 km north-west of Peralillo
Nearest city: 39 km north-west of Santa Cruz 34,914 people
To the sea: 32 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: 104–608 m
Mean elevation: 214 m

Measured over the whole outline on 166,732 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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