Rancagua

Sub-zone

Rancagua 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: 122,831 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre: 34.0461° S, 70.6697° 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: next to Codegua
Nearest city: 15 km north-east of Rancagua 212,695 people
To the sea: 101 km
Same latitude: Constantia (South Africa), Margaret River (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 380–3,791 m
Mean elevation: 1,159 m

Measured over the whole outline on 307,832 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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