Soil & Terroir With so much geographic variety, the Chilean
landscape also offers a vast mosaic of terroirs and soil types.
Soils are healthy, well-drained, and have a variety of origins
(alluvial, colluvial, fluvial, etc.) and textures (loam, clay,
sand, silt). Despite the relatively dry atmospheric conditions,
abundant water for irrigation flows from the eternal ice caps of
the Andes Mountains that tower all along Chile’s eastern border.