Chama
Chama is a small town in north central New Mexico, located in a mountain valley near the Colorado border. The town is noted for its mountain scenery, outdoor recreation, and for being the terminus of a scenic narrow-gauge railroad.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wdiehl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wiringa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 917 residents
- Description: village in New Mexico, United States
- Also known as: “Chama Crossing”, “Chama, New Mexico”, and “Chama, NM”
- Postal code: 87520
Chama
- Category: locality
- Location: Rio Arriba, North Central New Mexico, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.9035° or 36° 54′ 13″ northLongitude
-106.5791° or 106° 34′ 45″ westPopulation
917Elevation
7,871 feet (2,399 metres)United Nations Location Code
US QHMOpen location code
858MWC3C+99OpenStreetMap ID
node 151878101OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Chama” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تشامبا”
- Basque: “Chama”
- Catalan: “Chama (New Mexico)”
- Catalan: “Chama (Nou Mèxic)”
- Catalan: “Chama”
- Cebuano: “Chama”
- Chinese: “Chama”
- Chinese: “查馬 (新墨西哥州)”
- Chinese: “查馬”
- Croatian: “Chama, Novi Meksiko”
- Croatian: “Chama”
- Dutch: “Chama”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تشاما”
- French: “Chama”
- German: “Chama”
- Gilaki: “چاما”
- Italian: “Chama”
- Korean: “차마”
- Ladin: “Chama”
- Mazanderani: “چاما (نیومکزیکو)”
- Mazanderani: “چاما”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chama”
- Navajo: “Tsʼímah”
- Persian: “چاما”
- Polish: “Chama”
- Portuguese: “Chama”
- Serbian: “Чама (Нови Мексико)”
- Serbian: “Чама”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chama, New Mexico”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chama”
- South Azerbaijani: “چاما، نیومکزیکو”
- Spanish: “Chama (Nuevo México)”
- Spanish: “Chama”
- Swedish: “Chama, New Mexico”
- Swedish: “Chama”
- Ukrainian: “Чама”
- Volapük: “Chama (NM)”
- Volapük: “Chama, New Mexico”
- Volapük: “Chama, NM”
- Volapük: “Chama”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chama, New Mexico”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chama”
- Welsh: “Chama, New Mexico”
- Welsh: “Chama”
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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 “Chama”. Photo: Wiringa, CC BY-SA 3.0.