Caldera
Caldera is a town of 16,000 people on the coast of Northern Chile. It has a pleasant main square and some beaches, but most people going to the beach head to nearby Bahía Inglesa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Gerik20, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 15,500 residents
- Description: Chilean city
- Also known as: “Caldera and Bahía Inglesa” and “Caldera, Chile”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Paleontological Museum of Caldera and Iglesia de San Vicente de Paul, Caldera.
Paleontological Museum of Caldera
Museum
Photo: Arkturus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Paleontological Museum of Caldera is a natural history museum located in the commune of Caldera, Atacama Region, Chile. Since its establishment in 2006, it is dedicated to the protection and preservation of the fossil record of Caldera and related areas…
Caldera
- Categories: commune of Chile, city in Chile, and locality
- Location: Copiapó Province, Atacama, Northern Chile, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-27.0676° or 27° 4′ 3″ southLongitude
-70.8222° or 70° 49′ 20″ westPopulation
15,500Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)United Nations Location Code
CL CLDOpen location code
574FW5JH+X4OpenStreetMap ID
node 214208595OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Caldera” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كالديرا”
- Bashkir: “Калдера”
- Bashkir: “Кальдера”
- Basque: “Caldera”
- Catalan: “Caldera”
- Cebuano: “Caldera”
- Chinese: “Caldera”
- Chinese: “卡尔德拉”
- Chinese: “卡爾德拉”
- Dimli (individual language): “Caldera”
- Dutch: “Caldera”
- French: “Caldera”
- German: “Caldera”
- Italian: “Caldera”
- Japanese: “カルデラ（チリ）”
- Japanese: “カルデラ”
- Korean: “칼데라”
- Lithuanian: “Kaldera”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Caldera”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Caldera”
- Persian: “کالدرا”
- Polish: “Caldera”
- Portuguese: “Caldera”
- Romanian: “Caldera, Chile”
- Romanian: “Caldera”
- Russian: “Кальдера”
- Slovenian: “Caldera”
- Spanish: “Caldera (Chile)”
- Spanish: “Caldera”
- Swedish: “Caldera”
- Ukrainian: “Кальдера”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Caldera”. Photo: Gerik20, CC BY-SA 4.0.