Valle del Maule

Appellation

Valle del Maule is a DO subregion of Valle Central in Chile.

Chile's largest wine-growing valley by area, with old dry-farmed Carignan and País vines in its coastal hills.

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Key facts

Type: DO subregion (subregión)
Within: Valle Central
Area: 2,169,077 ha registered outline
Centre: 35.7574° S, 71.3633° 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: 7.9 km south of Colbún
Nearest city: 23 km east of Linares 69,535 people
To the sea: 106 km
Same latitude: Kangaroo Island (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 0–3,866 m
Mean elevation: 835 m

Measured over the whole outline on 89,086 elevation cells of about 496 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Inside Valle del Maule · 3

Wineries · 5

Botillería España
Natural Wine
Viña Balduzzi
Viña Carta Vieja
Viña Lacre Rojo

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Sources

geoBoundaries CHL ADM3 (2020) (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO))

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