Vuelta Ciclista Por Un Chile Líder (Vuelta Líder) was an elite men's professional

road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on Road surface, paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional sport, professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and ...

stage race A race stage, leg, or heat is a unit of a race that has been divided in several parts for the reason such as length of the distance to be covered, as in a multi-day event. Usually, such a race consists of "ordinary" stages, but sometimes stages ...

held annually in

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

. The Vuelta Líder was created in 1997 by

Líder Líder (Spanish for ''Leader'') is a Chilean hypermarket chain originally owned and operated by Distribución y Servicio (DyS) but sold to US American corporation Walmart in 2009.

, the largest supermarket chain in Chile, and was sanctioned by the Chilean Cycling Federation (''Federación Ciclista de Chile''). The last race was held in 2007. The Vuelta Líder was the largest cycling race in Chile. When the

UCI Continental Circuits The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to expand cycling around the world. The five circuits (representing the continents of Africa, the ...

were created in 2005, the Vuelta Ciclista Por Un Chile Líder was added to the

UCI America Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to expand cycling around the world. The five circuits (representing the continents of Africa, the ...

schedule.

List of winners

UCI America Tour races Cycle races in Chile

Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2007 Defunct cycling races in Chile 1997 establishments in Chile 2007 disestablishments in Chile {{cycling-race-stub