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Valle del Itata

Appellation

Valle del Itata is a DO subregion of Sur in Chile.

One of the oldest vineyard areas of Chile, in the south, with dry-farmed old País, Muscat and Cinsault vines on granite slopes.
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Key facts

Type
DO subregion (subregión)
Within
Sur
Area
629,698 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre
36.5144° S, 72.3337° 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
15 km south of Ninhue
Nearest city
23 km north-west of Chillán 150,396 people
To the sea
50 km
Same latitude
Heathcote (Australia), Waiheke Island (New Zealand)

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

Terrain

Elevation
0–863 m
Mean elevation
174 m

Measured over the whole outline on 105,355 elevation cells of about 246 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Inside Valle del Itata · 4

Wineries · 2

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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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