Calama
Calama is a city and commune in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. It is the capital of El Loa Province, part of the Antofagasta Region. Calama is one of the driest cities in the world with average annual precipitation of just 5 mm.
- Type: City with 158,000 residents
- Description: city in Chile
- Also known as: “Calama, Chile”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Estadio Zorros del Desierto and St. John the Baptist Cathedral, Calama.
Calama
- Categories: city in Chile and locality
- Location: El Loa, Antofagasta, Northern Chile, Chile, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
UN/LOCODE
CL CJC
Open location code
579HG3QF+24
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover this place from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Calama” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كالاما”
- Aymara: “Calama”
- Azerbaijani: “Kalama”
- Basque: “Calama”
- Bavarian: “Calama”
- Belarusian: “Каляма”
- Bengali: “ক্যালামা”
- Bulgarian: “Калама”
- Catalan: “Calama”
- Cebuano: “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: “कालामा”
- 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”
- Slovak: “Calama”
- Slovenian: “Calama”
- Spanish: “Calama”
- Swedish: “Calama”
- Tamil: “கலாமா”
- Tatar: “Калама”
- Telugu: “కాలమా”
- Thai: “กาลามา”
- Turkish: “Calama”
- Ukrainian: “Калама”
- Urdu: “کالاما، چلی”
- Urdu: “کالاما”
- Vietnamese: “Calama”
- Vlax Romani: “Calama”
- Waray (Philippines): “Calama, Chile”
- Waray (Philippines): “Calama”
- “Calama”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Calama”.
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Gran Avenida Sur and Villa Vista Hermosa.
Northern Chile: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Antofagasta and La Serena.
Explore These Curated Destinations
Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.