Illapel

Illapel is a DO area of Valle del Choapa 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

Valle del Choapa

Area

262,780 ha registered outline

Centre

31.5884° S, 70.9478° 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

9.3 km west of Canela

Nearest city

112 km south of Ovalle 77,138 people

To the sea

57 km

Same latitude

Olifants River (South Africa), Greater Perth (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation

74–4,268 m

Mean elevation

1,588 m

Measured over the whole outline on 156,150 elevation cells of about 130 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))