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.- Type: Town with 15,500 residents
- Description: Chilean city
- Also known as: “Caldera (Chile)”, “Caldera and Bahía Inglesa”, “Caldera, Chile”, and “カルデラ(チリ)”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Paleontological Museum of Caldera and Iglesia de San Vicente de Paul, Caldera.
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″ south
Longitude
-70.8222° or 70° 49′ 20″ west
Population
15,500
Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)
UN/LOCODE
CL CLD
Open location code
574FW5JH+X4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Caldera” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كالديرا”
- Bashkir: “Калдера”
- Bashkir: “Кальдера”
- Basque: “Caldera”
- Catalan: “Caldera”
- Cebuano: “Caldera”
- Chinese: “卡尔德拉”
- Chinese: “卡爾德拉”
- Dimli (individual language): “Caldera”
- Dutch: “Caldera”
- French: “Caldera”
- German: “Caldera”
- Hebrew: “קלדרה”
- Italian: “Caldera”
- 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”
- Swedish: “Caldera”
- Turkish: “Caldera, Şili”
- Ukrainian: “Кальдера”
- Urdu: “کالدیرا، چلی”
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Places to explore: Loteo Alto Bahía and Mirador de Charito.
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