Paiguano

Sub-zone

Paiguano is a DO area of Valle del Elqui in Chile.

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Key facts

Type: DO area (área)
Within: Valle del Elqui
Area: 151,505 ha registered outline
Centre: 30.2335° S, 70.3815° 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: 39 km south-east of Vicuña
Nearest city: 97 km south-east of Coquimbo 161,317 people
To the sea: 94 km
Same latitude: Northern Slopes (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 819–5,527 m
Mean elevation: 3,206 m

Measured over the whole outline on 87,738 elevation cells of about 132 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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