Valle del Aconcagua

Appellation

Valle del Aconcagua is a DO subregion of Aconcagua in Chile.

Valley north of Santiago, warm inland, with coastal vineyards reaching towards the Pacific.

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Key facts

Type: DO subregion (subregión)
Within: Aconcagua
Area: 680,870 ha registered outline
Centre: 32.7202° S, 70.7195° 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: 3.3 km north of San Felipe
Nearest city: 17 km north-west of Los Andes 63,009 people
To the sea: 69 km
Rivers nearby: Rio Rapel (1.4 km)
Same latitude: Hunter (Australia), Western Cape (South Africa)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 13–5,848 m
Mean elevation: 1,977 m

Measured over the whole outline on 103,884 elevation cells of about 257 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Inside Valle del Aconcagua · 9

Calle LargaSub-zone
CatemuSub-zone
HijuelasSub-zone
LlaillaySub-zone
PanquehueSub-zone
QuillotaSub-zone
San EstebanSub-zone
San FelipeSub-zone
Santa MaríaSub-zone

Wineries · 1

Viña Baron Knyphausen

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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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