Panquehue

Panquehue is a DO area of Valle del Aconcagua in Chile. It lies around the town of Panquehue and 9 km west of San Felipe.

The map shows the official outline with relief, 3D terrain, slope and exposure, climate and soil.

Key facts

Type

DO area (área)

Within

Valle del Aconcagua

Area

12,023 ha outline of the administrative units

Centre

32.7845° S, 70.8155° 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 Panquehue

Nearest city

9 km west of San Felipe 59,294 people

To the sea

61 km

Rivers nearby

Rio Rapel (2.7 km)

Same latitude

Western Cape (South Africa), Pokolbin (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation

420–1,838 m

Mean elevation

726 m

Mean slope

15.0° (27 %)

Steepest tenth

above 34°

Faces

north-west

Measured over the whole outline on 117,093 elevation cells of about 32 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))