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The Central Zone of Chile is the area with more population of Chile. In the Zone is located Santiago, the main city of this Country. Also other cities located in this area are: Viña del Mar, located in the Pacific coast. Near Viña is located Valparaíso a city declared World Culture Heritage some years ago, and where you can also visit the Chilean Congress. Southern Santiago you can find some valleys famous for the wineyards located there. Some of them are: Colchagua Valley and the city of Santa Cruz; the Maipo Valley, near Santiago; Curico and Maule Valley.

Locations

Coastal Center

Viña del Mar is the most known city in the Chilean Central Coast

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La Ligua

La Ligua means place of the fortune-teller. It has a population of 17,048 and an altitude of 131 feet. The town grew from a miner settlement in the mid XVII century, in the lands that belonged to an “encomienda” (trusteeship) granted by Pedro de Valdivia to Gonzalo de los Ríos, grandfather of “La Quintrala”.

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Limache

San Francisco de Limache is a peaceful rural city designed around Avenida Urmeneta, with oriental planetrees (plátanos orientales) on both sides forming a green tunnel. It has beautiful country houses from the beginning of the XX century, with gardens where there are many different species of palm trees.

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La Cruz

More than a town, it’s a long street with ranches, country houses and villas enclosed by high adobe walls, over which appear the treetops of huge fruit trees. And more recently, condominiums have been built.

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Quillota

The city of Quillota started to develop by the second half of the XIX century when the investors and businessman from Valparaíso acquired lands and built irrigation sites. Today the important project of an Industrial Technical Park is being implemented as a complement to the farm activity.

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Olmue

The visit to the city of Olmué is a trip to a place with excellent climate, a summer center for the population of the coast. It’s a circuit of 42.2 miles round trip on a paved road from Concón. It’s ideal to go stopping at the swimming pools in the area. The route is recommended during the entire season –except during Winter – especially when the coast is overcastted.

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Tiltil

The stroll from Santiago towards Tiltil and Caleu is a route by a solitary way between beautiful landscapes and old train stations, visiting the place where Manuel Rodriguez died, to finish in a charming town in the side of the mountain range of the Coast.

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Los Andes

Los Andes comprises the communes of San Felipe, Santa María, Putaendo, Panquehue, Catemu, Llay - Llay, Los Andes, Calle Larga, Rinconada and San Esteban. These places are situated in the midst of a marvelous nature, along a great historical and cultural richness.

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Catemu

Of colorful aspect, its origin is bound to the mining of copper. Here 40 furnaces of smelting settled. Today it is an agricultural center. Continue by the way and you contemplate the potreros, surrounded by pircas.

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Putaendo

Putaendo was the first town at which the patriotic army in 1817 arrived. Four centuries before, in 1485, during the Incas invasion of Túpac Yupanqui, his son Huaina Capac crossed the Andean bulk and descended by this valley, encamping in Putaendo and incorporating the valley of the Aconcagua to the Incas civilization.

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Santiago's Area

Located in the foothills of the Andes, Santiago is the most important city in Chile and where you will find the cultural, administrative and political centers of the Country

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Portillo

In 1949 the Portillo hotel was inaugurated. It was created by the Chilean State to attract international skiers. It was arrived in train, today ruins station, where an underground tunnel communicated with the hotel. After it was extended and modernized; the hotel has been host of great international events. The hotel is open all the year.

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Rancagua

This beautiful Chilean city, capital city of Sixth Region of the General Liberator Bernardo O’Higgins, maintains the own customs and traditions that identify the national folklore, expressed so much in their agricultural production, from their generous land the wine is born that has reached international fame.

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Sewell

At the present time, Sewell is an ex- camping, that subsists as an industrial area of the Division The Lieutenant (El Teniente), lodging a mineral Concentrator, its administrative offices and, of course, the beautiful civic, to live in buildings and of services that turn to Sewell a "typical and colorful zone".

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Cauquenes Hot Springs

The lands that surround the spas are steep and wooded, with centennial trees and were visited by the original inhabitants of the zone from pre-Columbian times and later handled by the Jesuits as of century XVII.

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Rio Cipreses (Cipreses River) National Reserve

Within the limits of the Rio Cipreses National Reserve coexists varied species of animals and birds, such as the culpeo fox, the parrot tricahue (species in extinction danger) and the fox chilla. But one of the most interesting aspects of the park is bosquetes of cypress of the mountain range, presents in the Urriola sector and that coexist with unit of olivillo of the mountain range.

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Palomo Volcano

Palomo Volcano is to 15.9 feet. Its name comes from the form that their glaciers give him, resemblances to the wings of a dove (palomo). Although the volcano is not the highest mountain of its environs, is without a doubt one of most beautiful and significant.

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Pichilemu

Pichilemu is characterized by the ample tourist supply that offers in all the corners of the commune, where is a perfect conjunction between countryside and sea. Beautiful rustic landscapes stand out next to green bluish ocean that extends throughout 62 miles with attractive appropriate gray sand beaches in its majority for swimming, fishes sport and for the practice of the nautical sports, between which it emphasizes surf.

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Santa Rosa de Pelequen

The 6 of August of 1881 the church of Santa Rosa was ready to receive the image and the 10 of August Viceparroquia of Pelequén is created. The 30 of August of 1881, the solemn transfer of the image was carried out from the inner clan of the parochial church of Malloa, to the new church of Pelequén, in the middle of popular fervor.

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Colchagua Valley

In the way, it will distinguish discharges glasses of trees and palms, survivors of the numerous parks that long ago conferred a striking distinction to the valley.

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Curico Valley

Curicó Valley Wine Route offers guided tours to Chilean vineyards where it is possible to learn about the process for making the wine, assembling room, labeling and tasting export wines in an amazing landscape, taste different kinds of grape juices, enjoy delicious food, buy handcraft and learn some more about the farm traditions from this zone.

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Maule Valley

Maule Valley – also known as Carmenere valley – it is the most austral viticultural area from the Central Valley which has the greatest extension on vineyards in the whole nation: 30.000 cultivated hectares and has the longest viticultural tradition that began during Spanish colonization.

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Constitucion

Constitución was an active port with a railway branch, intended to be a point for loading wheat production from Talca province and the estates located in the coast area. It is located 364 kms (226 miles) far from Santiago and 107 kms (66,5 miles) far from Talca.

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Los Bellotos National Reserve

It is a beautiful trip to the mountain – to Linares’ mountain chaín – with a particular kind of vegetation and an excellent tourism infrastructure. There are 57 kms (35.4 miles) from Linares: 13kms (8 miles) paved and 38kms (23.6 miles) of an unpaved road in the mountain.

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Federico Albert National Reserve

Federico Albert National Reserve has great scientific interest because it is the result of the plantations done at the end of last century by the German Doctor Federico Albert Faupp, to stop the invasion of the dunes which were covering extended agricultural terrains and threatened to burry the whole village.

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Los Ruiles National Reserve

Los Ruiles National Reserve has a native forest rich in tree species such as coihue, nothofagus glauca, cinnamon tree, Pitavia punctata, hazel tree, Chilean bell flower, fiunque, pelu, Weinmannia trichosperma and desfontaina spinosa.

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Los Huemules de Niblinto Natural Sanctuary

The fundamental intention of the Sanctuary of the Nature and Reserve the Huemules of Niblinto, is to protect the last population of huemules of central Chile. This is a heraldic mammal, an Andean red deer in extinction danger that formerly lived from the Cachapoal River (Rio Cachapoal) towards the south. In addition, it is one of the symbolic species that integrate the national shield of Chile.

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Colliguay

On your trip to Colliguay you will travel to a high valley that is a summer center for the population of the coast. It’s a circuit of 74.5 miles round trip from Viña, with a gravel road of 42.2 miles. It’s an ideal trip to make the entire season, except during Winter.

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Chanco

Chanco’s fame due to its cheeses, industry which began working again in 1997, after a long period in which it didn’t. Now it produces Chanco cheeses made of sheep, cow or both milks. Follow its old streets with corridors, to find the wheat warehouses as well as the square located in the middle of the village, in the place where the old church and its cemetery used to be located.

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