Panquehue

Sub-zone

Panquehue is a DO area of Valle del Aconcagua in Chile. It lies around the town of Panquehue and 9 km west of San Felipe.

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Key facts

Type: DO area (área)
Within: Valle del Aconcagua
Area: 12,023 ha registered outline
Centre: 32.7845° S, 70.8155° 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 Panquehue
Nearest city: 9 km west of San Felipe 59,294 people
To the sea: 61 km
Rivers nearby: Rio Rapel (2.7 km)
Same latitude: Western Cape (South Africa), Pokolbin (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 420–1,838 m
Mean elevation: 726 m
Mean slope: 15.0° (27 %)
Steepest tenth: above 34°
Faces: north-west

Measured over the whole outline on 117,093 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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