San Rafael

Sub-zone

San Rafael is a DO area of Valle del Claro in Chile.

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Key facts

Type: DO area (área)
Within: Valle del Claro
Area: 26,180 ha registered outline
Centre: 35.2912° S, 71.4798° 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 San Rafael
Nearest city: 21 km north-east of Talca 197,479 people
To the sea: 71 km
Same latitude: McLaren Vale (Australia), Northland (New Zealand)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 90–585 m
Mean elevation: 167 m

Measured over the whole outline on 67,880 elevation cells of about 62 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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