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Valle Central

Wine region

Valle Central is a DO wine region in Chile.

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Key facts

Type
DO wine region (región vitícola)
Area
6,115,488 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre
34.7326° S, 71.1678° 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
12 km west of Chimbarongo
Nearest city
21 km south-east of Santa Cruz 34,914 people
To the sea
82 km
Same latitude
Great Southern (Australia), Walker Bay (South Africa)

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

Terrain

Elevation
0–6,496 m
Mean elevation
1,100 m

Measured over the whole outline on 244,508 elevation cells of about 502 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

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Sources

geoBoundaries CHL ADM3 (2020) (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO))

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