Salamanca

Sub-zone

Salamanca is a DO area of Valle del Choapa in Chile.

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Key facts

Type: DO area (área)
Within: Valle del Choapa
Area: 344,792 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre: 31.9089° S, 70.6498° 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: 33 km south-east of Salamanca
Nearest city: 103 km north of Los Andes 63,009 people
To the sea: 80 km
Same latitude: Eastern Cape (South Africa), Central Western Australia (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 350–4,970 m
Mean elevation: 2,285 m

Measured over the whole outline on 51,820 elevation cells of about 260 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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