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Antofagasta
El Loa

Calama

Calama is a city and commune in the in northern . It is the capital of El Loa Province, part of the . Calama is one of the driest cities in the world with average annual precipitation of just 5 mm.
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  • Type: City with 158,000 residents
  • Description: city in Chile
  • Also known as: “Calama, Chile”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Zorros del Desierto and St. John the Baptist Cathedral, Calama.

Stadium
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Estadio Municipal "Zorros del Desierto" de Calama is a football stadium in Calama, Chile, owned by the municipality of Calama. It is the home field of the Cobreloa football team and is sometimes used by the Chile national football team to serve as their home ground.

Cathedral
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The St. John the Baptist Cathedral Also Calama Cathedral Is the main Catholic church of the Diocese of San Juan Bautista de Calama, in . It is located in the heart of the city, in front of the plaza 23 de Marzo, and was erected by the Bishop of Antofagasta Monsignor Luis Silva Lezaeta in the year 1906.

Calama

Latitude
-22.4624° or 22° 27′ 45″ south
Longitude
-68.9272° or 68° 55′ 38″ west
Population
158,000
Elevation
2,275 metres (7,464 feet)
IATA airport code
CJC
United Nations Location Code
CL CJC
Open location code
579HG3QF+24
Open­Street­Map ID
node 214213958
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3897347
Wiki­data ID
Q3685
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Calama” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كالاما”
  • Aymara: “Calama”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kalama”
  • Basque: “Calama”
  • Bavarian: “Calama”
  • Bengali: “ক্যালামা”
  • Bulgarian: “Калама”
  • Catalan: “Calama”
  • Cebuano: “Calama”
  • Chinese: “Calama”
  • Chinese: “卡拉馬”
  • Chinese: “卡拉马”
  • Czech: “Calama”
  • Danish: “Calama”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Calama”
  • Dutch: “Calama”
  • Esperanto: “Calama”
  • Finnish: “Calama”
  • French: “Calama”
  • Galician: “Calama”
  • German: “Calama”
  • Greek: “Καλάμα”
  • Guarani: “Calama”
  • Gujarati: “કલામા”
  • Hebrew: “קלמה”
  • Hindi: “कैलामा”
  • Hungarian: “Calama”
  • Indonesian: “Calama”
  • Italian: “Calama”
  • Japanese: “カラマ”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಲಮಾ”
  • Korean: “칼라마”
  • Latvian: “Kalamata”
  • Lithuanian: “Kalama”
  • Macedonian: “Калама”
  • Malay: “Calama”
  • Maltese: “Calama”
  • Marathi: “कॅलामा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Calama”
  • Mongolian: “Калама”
  • Northern Frisian: “Calama”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Calama”
  • Norwegian: “Calama”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Calama”
  • Persian: “کالاما”
  • Polish: “Calama”
  • Portuguese: “Calama”
  • Quechua: “Kalama”
  • Romanian: “Calama, Chile”
  • Romanian: “Calama”
  • Russian: “Калама”
  • Serbian: “Калама”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Calama”
  • Sinhala: “කැලමා”
  • Slovenian: “Calama”
  • Spanish: “Calama”
  • Swedish: “Calama”
  • Tamil: “கலாமா”
  • Tatar: “Калама”
  • Telugu: “కాలమా”
  • Thai: “กาลามา”
  • Turkish: “Calama”
  • Ukrainian: “Калама”
  • Urdu: “کالاما”
  • Vietnamese: “Calama”
  • Vlax Romani: “Calama”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Calama, Chile”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Calama”
  • “Calama”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Calama”. Photo: X20CrMoV121, CC BY-SA 4.0.