Yumbel

Sub-zone

Yumbel is a DO area of Valle del Biobío 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 Biobío
Area: 107,200 ha registered outline
Centre: 37.1570° S, 72.6138° 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: 8 km south-west of Yumbel
Nearest city: 53 km south-east of Concepción 223,574 people
To the sea: 50 km
Rivers nearby: Bío-Bío (15 km)
Same latitude: Coonawarra (Australia)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 38–484 m
Mean elevation: 138 m

Measured over the whole outline on 290,506 elevation cells of about 61 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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