Santa María

Sub-zone

Santa María is a DO area of Valle del Aconcagua 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 Aconcagua
Area: 16,610 ha registered outline
Centre: 32.6911° S, 70.6170° 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: 7.3 km north-east of Santa María
Nearest city: 12 km east of San Felipe 59,294 people
To the sea: 78 km
Rivers nearby: Rio Rapel (11 km)
Same latitude: Hunter (Australia), Western Cape (South Africa)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 679–3,265 m
Mean elevation: 1,336 m
Mean slope: 13.1° (23 %)
Steepest tenth: above 30°
Faces: south-west

Measured over the whole outline on 161,695 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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