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Chile's wine valleys

Each valley groups its wineries: those open to visitors and those with a restaurant or accommodation.

Compare two valleys side by side

Green floor of the Codpa valley, with fruit trees in autumn foliage and a few houses, hemmed in by arid hills in ocher and reddish tones under a clear skyPhoto: WeHaKa · CC BY-SA 4.0Codpa (Arica)Arica y Parinacota Region · 1 winery1 open to visitors · 1 with a restaurantOpen woodland of tamarugo trees on the salty, stony ground of the Pampa del Tamarugal, under a clear skyPhoto: Hans Peter Möller · CC BY-SA 2.0Tamarugal (Tarapacá)Tarapacá Region · 1 winery1 open to visitorsPanoramic view of the Jere valley in Toconao: an oasis of poplars and fruit trees on the floor of the ravine, surrounded by sand and rock hills of the Atacama Desert, with volcanoes on the horizonPhoto: Vít Baisa · CC BY-SA 4.0Toconao (Antofagasta)Antofagasta Region · 1 winery1 open to visitorsTerraced green vineyard blocks at the foot of arid gray hills in the Huasco valley, at Alto del Carmen, under a blue sky with thin cloudsPhoto: Alturas Oceanicas · CC BY 2.0AtacamaAtacama Region · 5 wineries5 open to visitors · 2 with accommodationGreen vineyards covering the floor and slopes of the Elqui valley at Pisco Elqui, between tall arid hills in pinkish tones under a blue skyPhoto: gaspar abrilot from Santiago, Chile · CC BY-SA 2.0ElquiCoquimbo Region · 8 wineries6 open to visitors · 1 with a restaurant · 2 with accommodationRows of trellised vines with leaves starting to turn yellow, a dirt track on the left and the hills of the Limarí valley in the background under a clear blue skyPhoto: Larrymox · CC BY-SA 3.0LimaríCoquimbo Region · 6 wineries6 open to visitorsThe Choapa river valley with green vineyards and overhead-trellised vines, weeping willows in the foreground and a rocky mountain range in the background under a clear blue skyPhoto: Boris Barraza · CC BY-SA 2.0ChoapaCoquimbo Region · 6 wineries6 open to visitorsVineyard in autumn with orange leaves and pruned vines in the foreground, in the Aconcagua valley, with ridges of hills in the background under a partly cloudy skyPhoto: Jorge Andrés de Captur Media from Chile · CC BY 2.0AconcaguaValparaíso Region · 12 wineries12 open to visitors · 2 with accommodationVines on a hillside in the foreground and, below, the Casablanca valley covered in vineyard blocks, with hills of the Coastal Range in the background under an overcast skyPhoto: Alvaro M. Tello · CC BY-SA 4.0CasablancaValparaíso Region · 12 wineries11 open to visitors · 4 with a restaurant · 1 with accommodationRows of vines with yellow, orange and reddish autumn foliage climbing a hillside under a blue sky, in LeydaPhoto: Rosario Nieto Chadwick · CC BY 3.0San AntonioValparaíso Region · 8 wineries6 open to visitors · 1 with a restaurant · 1 with accommodationRows of green trellised vines with wooden posts, a line of poplars and a scrub-covered hill in the background under a clear skyPhoto: LBM1948 · CC BY-SA 4.0MaipoMetropolitana Region · 48 wineries42 open to visitors · 9 with a restaurant · 4 with accommodationCarménère vineyard with red and orange autumn leaves, willows and poplars, and the Andes in the backgroundPhoto: FRPGCHILE · CC BY-SA 4.0CachapoalO'Higgins Region · 22 wineries18 open to visitors · 3 with a restaurant · 4 with accommodationPanoramic view of green vineyard blocks crisscrossed by dirt tracks, with vine-planted hills and wooded hills in the background under a blue skyPhoto: Tjeerd Wiersma from Amsterdam, Netherlands · CC BY 2.0ColchaguaO'Higgins Region · 47 wineries38 open to visitors · 10 with a restaurant · 13 with accommodationThe Lontué river running in several channels between stone banks and golden scrub, with wooded hills of the Andean foothills and white clouds in the background, near MolinaPhoto: RL GNZLZ from Chile · CC BY-SA 2.0CuricóMaule Region · 19 wineries7 open to visitors · 1 with a restaurantA wide stretch of the Loncomilla river with a sandy beach on the left, wooded banks and a hill with dry slopes and plantations on its side, under a cloudy skyPhoto: Alextan63 · CC BY-SA 3.0MauleMaule Region · 46 wineries29 open to visitors · 5 with a restaurant · 8 with accommodationDry rolling hills of Itata's dry-farmed country in afternoon light, with stands of pines and poplars, a hamlet at the bottom of the valley and vines with yellow autumn foliage on the hillside in the foregroundPhoto: Celinesteban · CC BY-SA 3.0ItataÑuble Region · 37 wineries32 open to visitors · 7 with a restaurant · 8 with accommodationView from a lookout over the Bureo river, which cuts diagonally past wide green meadows with rows of poplars and, in the background, the faint outline of the AndesPhoto: Cristobal carrasco · CC BY-SA 4.0Bío BíoBiobío Region · 20 wineries19 open to visitors · 1 with a restaurant · 7 with accommodationEars of ripe wheat in the foreground and, out of focus in the background, a hill with shrubs and trees under a clear blue skyPhoto: Igallards7 · CC BY 4.0MallecoLa Araucanía Region · 3 wineries1 open to visitorsA wide green field on a valley floor, surrounded by wooded hills, with scrub and yellow flowers in the foreground, under a blue sky with white cloudsPhoto: Eduardo Bertrán · CC BY-SA 3.0CautínLa Araucanía Region · 4 wineries4 open to visitors · 1 with a restaurant · 2 with accommodationDeep blue waters of Lake Ranco surrounded by forest-covered hills, with mountains and white clouds on the horizon and a green slope in the foreground on the rightPhoto: Rinacaty · CC BY-SA 3.0AustralLos Ríos Region · 4 wineries3 open to visitors · 2 with accommodation
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