Chillán

Sub-zone

Chillán is a DO area of Valle del Itata in Chile.

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Key facts

Type: DO area (área)
Within: Valle del Itata
Area: 253,365 ha registered outline
Centre: 36.5124° S, 71.9605° 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: 9.8 km south of San Carlos
Nearest city: 17 km north-east of Chillán 150,396 people
To the sea: 81 km
Same latitude: Heathcote (Australia), Waiheke Island (New Zealand)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 19–502 m
Mean elevation: 153 m

Measured over the whole outline on 42,665 elevation cells of about 246 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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