Zapallar

Zapallar is a DO area of Aconcagua in Chile.

The map shows the official outline with relief, 3D terrain, slope and exposure, climate and soil.

Key facts

Type

DO area (área)

Within

Aconcagua

Area

28,849 ha registered outline

Centre

32.5900° S, 71.3256° 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

18 km south-west of La Ligua

Nearest city

25 km north of La Calera 50,221 people

To the sea

12 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

0–1,050 m

Mean elevation

213 m

Mean slope

11.8° (21 %)

Steepest tenth

above 24°

Faces

several directions, mostly west

Measured over the whole outline on 280,215 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))