Pirque

Sub-zone

Pirque is a DO area of Valle del Maipo 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 Maipo
Area: 44,480 ha registered outline
Centre: 33.7203° S, 70.5112° 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: 14 km south of Puente Alto
Nearest city: 23 km south-east of San Bernardo 249,858 people
To the sea: 105 km
Same latitude: Paarl (South Africa), Clare Valley (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 596–2,959 m
Mean elevation: 1,301 m
Mean slope: 18.5° (33 %)
Steepest tenth: above 34°
Faces: north-west

Measured over the whole outline on 442,493 elevation cells of about 32 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Wineries · 2

Bodega de Guarda Don Melchor
Bodega de Guarda del Alto

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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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