The Central Valley Travel Guide
- Overview
- Places to Explore
- Sights
- Restaurants
- Hotels
- Entertainment
- Shopping
- Travel Tips
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- Fodor's Choice
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- Spanish Phrases
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Guidebooks
The Central Valley is Chile's heartland. The combination of rich soils, long, warm, and dry summers offset by cold and rainy winters, and abundant supplies of Andean meltwater for irrigation, makes this ideal farm land. It is also the perfect place to grow wine grapes, and as such, wine has been a very big deal in much of the Central Valley for four centuries.
The Central Valley Hotels
Fodor's local writers visit every hotel we recommend. Look for our discerning Fodor's Choice picks or search by price and location.
Fodor's Choice
The Central Valley Restaurants
No matter where or when you eat in the Central Valley, a good bottle of local wine is likely to be on the table, so knowing a handful of wine-related words...read more
Things To Do in The Central Valley
Explore the best sights, entertainment, and shopping with our top choices and insider tips.
Travel Deals in The Central Valley
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The Central Valley Experiences
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Wine tasting: The Central Valley is the heart of Chile's wine country. Vineyards for both table and wine grapes abound and are pretty hard to... Read more
Travel Blog
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Trip Ideas & Itineraries, Best of the Best
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News, Trip Ideas & Itineraries, Hotels
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Practical Travel Tips
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Trip Report Chile/Argentina
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