Chile · DO subregion (subregión)

Valle del Maipo

Appellation

Valle del Maipo is a DO subregion of Valle Central in Chile.

The valley around Santiago, cradle of Chilean wine in the 19th century. Alto Maipo, at the foot of the Andes, is known for Cabernet Sauvignon.

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Key facts

Type: DO subregion (subregión)
Within: Valle Central
Area: 1,539,391 ha registered outline
Centre: 33.6045° S, 70.6053° 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: 2.9 km north-west of Puente Alto
Nearest city: 4 km south-east of La Pintana 201,178 people
To the sea: 95 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: 12–6,533 m
Mean elevation: 1,600 m

Measured over the whole outline on 239,106 elevation cells of about 255 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Inside Valle del Maipo · 13

AlhuéSub-zone
BuinSub-zone
Calera de TangoSub-zone
ColinaSub-zone
Isla de MaipoSub-zone
LampaSub-zone
María PintoSub-zone
MelipillaSub-zone
PirqueSub-zone
Puente AltoSub-zone
SantiagoSub-zone
TalaganteSub-zone
Til TilSub-zone

Wineries · 5

Bodega
Bodega Viña Ventisquero
Bodega de Guarda Don Melchor
Bodega de Guarda del Alto
Viña Chocalán

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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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