Coltauco

Sub-zone

Coltauco is a DO area of Valle del Cachapoal in Chile.

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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 Cachapoal
Area: 22,193 ha registered outline
Centre: 34.2862° S, 71.1013° 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 Coltauco
Nearest city: 17 km north of San Vicente de Tagua Tagua 44,046 people
To the sea: 83 km
Same latitude: Riverland (Australia), Elgin (South Africa)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 183–1,798 m
Mean elevation: 486 m
Mean slope: 13.2° (23 %)
Steepest tenth: above 34°
Faces: south-east

Measured over the whole outline on 224,077 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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