Calera de Tango

Sub-zone

Calera de Tango is a DO area of Valle del Maipo in Chile. It lies around the town of Calera de Tango and 8 km east of Peñaflor.

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

Key facts

Type: DO area (área)
Within: Valle del Maipo
Area: 7,298 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre: 33.6192° S, 70.7923° 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: around the town of Calera de Tango
Nearest city: 8 km east of Peñaflor 85,671 people
To the sea: 78 km
Same latitude: Paarl (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: 398–935 m
Mean elevation: 489 m
Mean slope: 4.1° (7 %)
Steepest tenth: above 17°
Faces: north-west

Measured over the whole outline on 72,684 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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