Puente Alto

Sub-zone

Puente Alto is a DO area of Valle del Maipo in Chile. It lies around the town of Puente Alto and 5 km south-east of La Pintana.

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Key facts

Type: DO area (área)
Within: Valle del Maipo
Area: 11,853 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre: 33.5959° S, 70.5812° 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 Puente Alto
Nearest city: 5 km south-east of La Pintana 201,178 people
To the sea: 97 km
Same latitude: Coastal Region (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: 590–2,242 m
Mean elevation: 745 m

Measured over the whole outline on 29,674 elevation cells of about 64 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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