Hijuelas

Sub-zone

Hijuelas is a DO area of Valle del Aconcagua 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 Aconcagua
Area: 26,765 ha registered outline
Centre: 32.8636° S, 71.0897° 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: 9 km south-east of Hijuelas
Nearest city: 15 km east of Quillota 67,779 people
To the sea: 39 km
Rivers nearby: Rio Rapel (4.7 km)
Same latitude: Boberg (South Africa), Central Ranges (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 220–2,201 m
Mean elevation: 668 m

Measured over the whole outline on 65,756 elevation cells of about 64 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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