Valle de Colchagua

Sub-zone

Valle de Colchagua is a DO zone of Valle del Rapel in Chile.

Part of the Rapel Valley, warm and sunny, best known for Carmenère, Cabernet Sauvignon and blends. Apalta, a horseshoe of hillside vineyards, is its most famous sector.

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Key facts

Type: DO zone (zona)
Within: Valle del Rapel
Area: 884,604 ha registered outline
Centre: 34.4495° S, 71.6810° 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: 19 km west of Peralillo
Nearest city: 36 km north-west of Santa Cruz 34,914 people
To the sea: 30 km
Same latitude: Walker Bay (South Africa), Barossa Valley (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 0–4,776 m
Mean elevation: 731 m

Measured over the whole outline on 35,467 elevation cells of about 504 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Inside Valle de Colchagua · 14

ApaltaSub-zone
ChimbarongoSub-zone
La EstrellaSub-zone
LituecheSub-zone
LololSub-zone
Los LinguesSub-zone
MarchigüeSub-zone
NancaguaSub-zone
PalmillaSub-zone
ParedonesSub-zone
PeralilloSub-zone
PumanqueSub-zone
San FernandoSub-zone
Santa CruzSub-zone

Wineries · 7

Bodega Viña Viu Manent
Clos Apalta, Viña Lapostolle
La Llavería Viu Manent
Viña Clos Santa Ana
Viña Estampa
Viña Lapostolle
Viña Laura Hartwig

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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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