Paniahue (Mapudungun: proper place to take the glare)[1] is a Chilean village located north of Santa Cruz, Colchagua Province, O'Higgins Region.
As of 1899, it had 1,055 inhabitants, its own post office and a free public school.[2] It currently has 2,526 inhabitants.[3]
The village was greatly damaged by the 2010 Chile earthquakes, and the Paniahue apartments became an icon of the earthquake.