Valle del Huasco

Appellation

Valle del Huasco is a DO subregion of Atacama in Chile.

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Key facts

Type: DO subregion (subregión)
Within: Atacama
Area: 1,820,627 ha registered outline
Centre: 28.7499° S, 70.5360° 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: 4.9 km north-west of Alto del Carmen
Nearest city: 29 km south-east of Vallenar 44,895 people
To the sea: 74 km
Same latitude: Free State (South Africa), Granite Belt (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 0–6,086 m
Mean elevation: 1,805 m

Measured over the whole outline on 64,201 elevation cells of about 536 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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