Balmaceda is a Chilean village (Spanish: aldea) located south east of Coyhaique in Aysén Region.

Balmaceda was initially one of the largest inland Chilean settlements in what is now the Aysén Region.

Balmaceda is linked to Route 40, in Argentina, via a 102 km gravel extension road (not pavement - May/2019 info).

The climate of Balmaceda is an unusual combination of the dry-summer Mediterranean characteristic more typical of Central Chile with the subpolar oceanic characteristics more typical of southern Chile.

It has the warm-summer Mediterranean climate, bordering the extremely rare cold-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb, bordeline Csc), with short, though dry summers, and long, somewhat snowy though not severe winters.