Mulchén

Sub-zone

Mulchén is a DO area of Valle del Biobío in Chile.

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Key facts

Type: DO area (área)
Within: Valle del Biobío
Area: 298,587 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre: 37.7326° S, 72.2380° 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 Mulchén
Nearest city: 31 km south of Los Ángeles 125,430 people
To the sea: 107 km
Rivers nearby: Bío-Bío (11 km)
Same latitude: Yarra Valley (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 38–1,736 m
Mean elevation: 409 m

Measured over the whole outline on 51,908 elevation cells of about 242 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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