Los Ríos topographic maps

Average elevation: 32 m

Average elevation: 37 m

Within the context of plate tectonics, the city lies at a convergent margin where Nazca Plate, in the Pacific, is subducted beneath the South American Plate. Topographically Valdivia lies in a depression amidst the Chilean Coast Range. The basement rocks that crops out in the hills around the city are of…

Average elevation: 143 m

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Average elevation: 218 m