Cauquenes

Sub-zone

Cauquenes is a DO area of Valle del Tutuvén in Chile.

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The map shows the official outline with relief, 3D terrain, slope and exposure, climate and soil.

Key facts

Type: DO area (área)
Within: Valle del Tutuvén
Area: 212,465 ha registered outline
Centre: 35.9690° S, 72.3477° 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: around the town of Cauquenes
Nearest city: 74 km north of Chillán 150,396 people
To the sea: 29 km
Same latitude: Rutherglen (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 52–802 m
Mean elevation: 218 m

Measured over the whole outline on 139,874 elevation cells of about 124 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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