Santiago

Sub-zone

Santiago is a DO area of Valle del Maipo in Chile. It lies 5.3 km south of Peñalolén and 11 km north-east of Puente Alto.

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Key facts

Type: DO area (área)
Within: Valle del Maipo
Area: 12,466 ha registered outline
Centre: 33.5157° S, 70.5366° 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: 5.3 km south of Peñalolén
Nearest city: 11 km north-east of Puente Alto 568,106 people
To the sea: 101 km
Same latitude: Coastal Region (South Africa), Orange (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 578–3,222 m
Mean elevation: 1,078 m
Mean slope: 13.0° (23 %)
Steepest tenth: above 35°
Faces: west

Measured over the whole outline on 123,584 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.

Sources

geoBoundaries CHL ADM3 (2020) (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO))

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