Punitaqui

Sub-zone

Punitaqui is a DO area of Valle del Limarí in Chile.

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Key facts

Type: DO area (área)
Within: Valle del Limarí
Area: 109,218 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre: 30.9442° S, 71.3762° 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 south-west of Punitaqui
Nearest city: 42 km south-west of Ovalle 77,138 people
To the sea: 27 km
Same latitude: Western Plains (Australia), Lutzville Valley (South Africa)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 123–1,539 m
Mean elevation: 591 m

Measured over the whole outline on 64,295 elevation cells of about 131 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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