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Valle del Choapa

Appellation

Valle del Choapa is a DO subregion of Coquimbo in Chile.

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Key facts

Type
DO subregion (subregión)
Within
Coquimbo
Area
1,012,787 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre
31.7111° S, 71.0044° 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
8.5 km north of Salamanca
Nearest city
85 km north-east of La Ligua 32,131 people
To the sea
49 km
Same latitude
Olifants River (South Africa), Greater Perth (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation
0–4,970 m
Mean elevation
1,446 m

Measured over the whole outline on 151,103 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.

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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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