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Calama City of the Great North of Chile. Capital of the Province of the Loa, in II the Region of Antofagasta. Integra along with the communes of Tocopilla, Maria Elena, Ollagüe and San Pedro de Atacama the Electoral District N° 3 and belongs to 2ª Senatorial Circumscription (Antofagasta). The commune of Calama is integrated in addition by the communities quechua to Station San Pedro, Toconce and Cupo; and the communities lickanantai of Taira, Old Conchi, Lasana, San Francisco de Chiuchiu, Aiquina-Turi, and Caspana (all these within the Project Commune of Loa Stop); besides almost left mining camping of Chuquicamata, of which its population is being transferred to the city.

General performances

  • Founded like: Calama.
  • Foundation: unknown date.
  • Population: 143,000 inhabitants.
  • Surface: 15,597 km ².
  • Densidad: 9.16 Hab/km ².
  • Region: II Region of Antofagasta.
  • Province: The Loa.
  • Circumscription: II - Antofagasta.
  • District: nº 3.
  • Gentilicio: Calameño/a, Loíno/a

Toponymy

Diverse hypotheses with respect to the origin of the place-name exist “calama”, but the two main ones and of greater sustenance speak of their origin in the language ckunza, spoken in the past by lickanantai, ethnic group who until today resides in the Province of the Loa.

Hector Pumarino Grove affirms that Calama comes from ckunza Ckara-loves, that means “town in the middle of the water”. This affirmation is sustained totally in which, until half-full of century XX, the urban location of Calama and the surrounding oasis were flanked by the Loa river (in his South edge and it orients) and fertile valleys and marshes of the sector the west, causing that forms a true island in the middle of the desert, surrounded by the water.

Emilio Vaïsse, in as much, says that Calama comes from ckunza Ckolama, that means “place where partridges abound”. This gives testimony of the abundance of this bird, mainly in the middle of marshes of the sector the west.

Culture and Tourism

The commune of Calama concentrates a rich natural and cultural patrimony still little profiteer, legacy clarified between the national and international nature, our ethnic groups, dominations incaica, Hispanic, Bolivian and Chilean, and immigrants who have returned to Calama a land of opportunities. Diverse public and deprived organizations (as the Municipal Corporation of Culture and Tourism) try to give life to the local tourism.

Patrimony and Attractive Tourist

Although the infrastructural problems and of services of the commune of Calama prevent to operate their tourist potential, still there are wonders that to show in the same urban helmet, besides the surrounding oasis and the towns of the interior:

San Juan cathedral Baptist.

Construída at the beginning of century XX, and rejuvenated at the beginning of the 21st century with plates of copper in its ceiling and cupola.

Abaroa Ex--property.

Located after the Municipal Cemetery, still it conserves constructions of aims of century XIX, pertaining to the hero calameño that fought by Bolivia, gift Eduardo Abaroa Noble, and to its son, pioneer of the Chilean domination, gift Andrónico Abaroa.

Hill the Cross.

Located in the norponiente peripheral sector of the city and in notable been of abandonment, this point of peregrination is under negotiation for being transformed into a park-sanctuary, in which the cross of its summit will be replaced by one more a greater and plated cross in copper.

Park the Loa and Paseo of the River.

With spas qualified in the Loa river and diverse games, multifields and museums, the Park the Loa has become the main rallying point in the city; the Stroll of the River, in as much, is a project that it tries to qualify a footpath and more bath throughout the route of the river within the city, from Yalquincha to the Cascade.

Topáter.

Located in the periphery it orients of the city, is a sector of high importance for local history; the first vestiges of population in Calama (preincaica) and the oldest cemetery are located in their environs; in addition, it was the main point of operations of the Chilean conquest, in Batalla de Calama.

Agro-tourism.

Choclo calameño is very desired at national level, whereas the extensive fields of alfalfa have sustained generations of the cattle used like load; in some parcels coienza to remove benefit to him to these histories.

Mining camping of Chuquicamata.

Testimony of the life of the workers of the copper mine to greater open edge of the world, before the transfer to Calama; they emphasize the mine and the urban center.

Dam of Conchi.

Construído in the middle of located century XX and to the interior of Calama, is a good point to practice sport fishing.

Loa stop.

Extensive region to the interior of Calama that aspires to being commune, attractive by the Andean tradition of its towns, reflected mainly in its terraces of culture, traditions and churches, of style known world-wide level.

Geysers of the Tatio.

Almost near the border with Bolivia, they are visited every year by thousands of national and foreign tourists.

Traditions and Festivals

The festivals in all the commune are varied, as much of religious nature as floklórico.

Calameño summer.

The neighbors group themselves in alliances, with sport competitions, artistic, cultural and election of queen. From mid January in the middle of February.

Andean carnival.

Although the authorities not yet organize a great Andean Carnival in the city (like which they become, for example, in Arica), the intentions between the calameños exist, as a contribution more to the tourism and recreation in the summer. In any case, in the towns of the interior it has not been stopped celebrating this pre-Hispanic tradition. Half-full of February.

Religious celebrations.

In all the commune liturgies and celebrations to the holy employers of each town are organized. They emphasize the celebrations of Our Lady of the Candlemas in Caspana (1-3 of February), San Juan Baptist in Calama (24 of June), Our Lady of the Carmen in Old Conchi (16 of July), San Lorenzo in Chuquicamata (10 of August), Our Mrs. of Guadalupe in Aiquina (main celebration of the province, 8 of September and 12 of December) San Francisco in Chiuchiu (4 of October) and the Adoration to the God Boy (exclusive tradition of Calama, 24 of December to 6 of January).

Festival of Jazz.

Great bands met in the first version, 2007. By his success, it promises continuity.

Month of Calama.

In commemoration to the Chilean conquest of Calama (23 of March of 1879), diverse activities are realised, being this the main celebration of the commune. Civic and scholastic parades, exhibitions and fairs, ramadas and popular celebrations, concerts, spectacle pyrotechnics, and a military parade in the battlefield (Topáter), are, among others, the events of the month. March.

History

The origins of the Mining Capital of Chile are lost in the time, and they megre in a still effective past in which the communication channels and the supplying of the traffic of merchandise until today are menacing, all this besides the mining. Examples of archaeological evidences exist in the petroglyphs and the caves of Yalquincha (NE of the city), chullpas of Topáter (indigenous cemeteries, and of the city), and the Momia de Cobre and other rest, in Chuquicamata.

When being in the intersection of the Way of the Inca (the longitudinal one) with the routes that crossed of the coast to the Plateau, Calama became the main inn from the Depopulated one of Atacama. Their extensive lands destined to the culture of maize and alfalfa give testimony of the high capacity to supply forage to the troops of flames of chasquis and ofrendar appraised tribute to the Inka. In fact, when Diego de Almagro, of return to the Cusco, happens through the Inn of Calama, the native ones give copper horseshoes to him, product of a mysterious technique taught by inkas to their conquered towns, of which science not yet has explanation today, but give to testimony of her the cronistas.

The Spanish domination only meant some changes, because the hostile climate prevented to establish a greater dominion. These changes affected maintaining control between the routes that crossed the desert and communicated to the port of Blanket with the deposits of silver of Potosí and the cattle farms of Salta and Tucuman. In this sense, Calama became the main supply point of these commercial routes. The Depopulated one of Atacama depended on the Pool Presidency, being San Pedro de Atacama the capital of the group of judges. In century XVIII, with the Bourbon Reforms, Calama depended directly on Intendance of Potosí.

After the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Bolivia (6 of August of 1825), and with gradual changes in the administration of the territory, it was formed the Department of the Coast (1829), subdivided in the Province of Lamar and the Province of Atacama, being Blanket the departmental capital. Calama was an important town of the Province of Atacama, through what the weekly mail between Blanket circulated and Jumps - Potosí, from 1832. In 1840 the provincial capital now moves of Chiuchiu to Calama, increasing the height that the communications gave him, with the subprefecture. The border conflicts that had Chile and Bolivia reached neither to Calama nor to the Province of Atacama, because the greater dispute concentrated in central Pampas and the coast, where were begun to discover rich deposits of silver, saltpeter and guano; in addition that was not in discussion that the precordillerano and altiplánico territory of present II the Region of Antofagasta belonged to the old Pool Presidency, from which would form Bolivia. But the atmosphere was put tense at the moment at which the Chilean troops, in charge of colonel Emilio Sotomayor Baeza pacifically disembarked and took the port from Antofagasta, the morning of the 14 of February of 1879, after which Bolivia declared the war to him to Chile the 1 of March.

The prefect of the Department of the Coast, Severino Zapata, fled along with all the authorities and personnel to Calama, where the landowners and laborers already were arming themselves, because they knew that the Chileans would cross the desert to break with the Bolivian resistance. Ladislao lawyer Goatherd, when seeing that the Bolivian troops not yet arrived, took the control from the civil forces that prepararona to defend Calama (a little more 100), until a company arrived from the Battalion of Red, in charge of the lieutenant colonel Sworn Ruperto; whereas the 21 of March undertook march from Snails to Calama a total superior to 500 Chilean soldiers, in charge of the lieutenant colonel Eleuterio Ramirez Oil mill. At the dawn of the 23 of March of 1879 the Chilean troops arrived until Calama, where when happening of the hours they freed the first warlike shock of the War of the Pacific, Batalla de Calama, in which it emphasized the anger of the landowner Eduardo Abaroa, one of the main owners of territories of the oasis of Calama and which became lieutenant from the civil troops, who died after the famous dialogue, worthy of mention, that it had with the lieutenant colonel Ramirez, after who would finish pestered by a Chilean load, in the middle of the unquestionable Chilean triumph: (Ramirez) - Ríndase, Abaroa lieutenant! (Abaroa) -To render I to me? That her grandmother surrenders, carajo! The anger of this hero was worth the honors that rendered the Chilean troops to him to their grave in the Cemetery of Calama, and the honors of both states at the time of transferring the rest of Abaroa from Calama to La Paz (1952). At noon, the place of Calama already had been taken by the Chileans, and Ramirez became his first Chilean authority.

The changes in the administration were deep from that one day, because from being administrative center of 2º order in Bolivia, became one from 4º order under the Chilean administration (subdelegation). Just in 1888, under the government of Jose Manuel Balmaceda, Calama order becomes an administrative center from 3º, when being inaugurated the municipality (13 of October). Previous to it, in 1886, the railway station of the Railroad Antofagasta - Bolivia was inaugurated, which more still made agile the passage of loads by Calama; all this made denote the descentralizadora tendency of president Balmaceda, who was the first Chilean president in visiting this city that already surpassed the 1,000 inhabitants in that period.

Century XX meant Calama sealing its destiny like the Mining Capital of Chile, process that was begun to work with the beginning of tasks in the copper deposit of Chuquicamata (1915). Administratively, Calama returned to be an administrative center of 2º order, when decreeing itself under the government of Arthur Alessandri Palm the formation of the Department of the Loa. Massive swelling of population, originating in their majority of present IV the Region of Coquimbo, got to work and to populate the greater mining camping with History with Chile; this population has been transferred, gradually, until today, from the decade of 1960, with the construction of the first towns of miners in the city of Calama. In 1951 the waters of the Salado river, affluent of the Loa, were turned aside, because they prevented the total farming development of the oasis. It is in these times in which the first citizen outcry arises so that the Loa gets to be province (equivalent to the present regions of Chile), headed by Alejandrina Olive; this, to vindicate the resources that within the present Province of the Loa take place for the economic well-being of the country, which resist with the reality of abandonment and lack of progress for all the calameños, that until today lasts. Product of it, under 2º government of Carlos Ibáñez of the Field (1955) was decreed that the mining municipalities received to the mining companies under their jurisdiction 5% of the gains that they generated of copper, which went something of aid to the weak reality calameña; to this the managements of the senators were added Pablo Neruda and Radomiro Tomic (top Chilean politician born in Calama); with the Nationalization of Cobre, under the government of Salvador Beyond Gossens, this contribution increased. But when beginning the dictatorship of the Military junta of Government of 1973 was cut all these benefits (1974). That same year, the Caravan of the Death, apparatus of repression of dissidents occupied by the Meeting, happened through Calama, harvesting 26 executed, between social and militant leaders of left, later to retire corpses of the grave common that they made in Pampas of Moctezuma and throw them to the sea, according to sent investigations to make years later by president Ricardo Lagos Sweep.

The Meeting transfers all the authority to him to August general Pinochet Ugarte, that in its dictatorship reforms the administrative division of the country. In spite of this change, Calama continues conserving its category of administrative center of 2º order, with the replacement from department to province. In the middle of as much political and social tension that it was breathed in the atmosphere, it is born the 7 from January of 1977 the Club of Cobreloa Sports, from always one of the protagonists of the professional championship of Chilean soccer, and that from its beginnings has been more than a football team, the joy and the pride of the city, in the middle of the abandonment that their inhabitants on the part of the Chilean government feel, who still is of centralist character. The return to the democracy meant to return to something of height, thanks to diverse reforms as far as the autonomy of the handling of the municipalities in Chile, being the first mayor of this period gift Edwin Rowe Oil mill, that after more than 10 years in the municipality, is destituído of its position in the middle of a great controversy, because the tributary problems and of treasury that presented/displayed the municipality contrasted with the ample advances of obtained infrastructure and management in their period; this deeply divided to the public opinion calameña by a time. After several interinnate ones, after the municipal elections of the 2004, Arthur Henríquez Oil mill it assumes the mayorship, prevailing on Nalto Stolen Espinoza, a ex--mayor of the period of Pinochet.

The 21st century has been characterized by an increasing popular fervor to vindicate the dignity of Calama and the Province of the Loa; then being of that more it contributes económicamante to the country, he is from which less resources receive, which is reflected in the atmosphere and the urban and road infrastructure of the city (to name some factors), which has motivated the union of Calama with the rest of the communes of the provinces of the Loa and Tocopilla to impel the concretion of the Project the Loa Region, that comes to retake the mobilizations headed in the middle of century XX by Alejandrina Olive. Importance also has had in the commune the vindication of rights of the secondary students to an education of better quality and to than the Mining Capital of Chile it owns his own state university, grouped in diverse colectivities, these movements were added to the Revolution of the Penguins, that at national level grouped students of all the levels and it mobilized at levels of call and popular weight nonsights from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. The irony that presents/displays the reality on the matter calameña is that, while the secondary students continue waiting for by a worthy state university of the Mining Capital of Chile and those that when finishing average education are forced to leave the Earth saw that them be born to follow studies superiors, the authorities have approved the construction of a casino of games, del that not yet trusts of its yield, because not even the tourism (that can bring players) sufficiently is harnessed.

Geography

The Commune of Calama counts on two ecological floors: the western faldeos and piedmont of the Mountain range of the $andes, in which the city is located; and the mountain range properly so (on the 3,000 msnm), in which fertile valleys lodge to existing towns from preincaicas times. The Plateau is not present in the jurisdiction of the commune, belonging this ecological floor to the commune of Ollagüe.

Orography

The western limit of the commune of Calama is marked by summits of Precordillera, which is pronounced to the north of Calama with Precordillera of the Loa River, which receives diverse names, of north to the south: Brown mountain range, Hills of Chuquicamata, Hills of Montecristo. The Poquis Hill (4,589 msnm), is its maximum altitude, to the north of Chuquicamata. To the south of her the first spurs of the Mountain range of Domeyko begin, which simultaneously serve to draw up the South limit of the commune, with the names of Mountain range of Green Lemon and Cord Mud Spider. The passage of the Loa river of this the west leaves a level one, in which it locates the city and the oasis of Calama.

Between Precordillera and the Mountain range of the $andes the North-South course of the Loa river and its meeting with the Salado river forms the Depression of the Loa Superior. To the south of this one the Great Prealtiplánica Grave forms, pronouncing itself through Pampas of Moctezuma, within the limits of the commune.

The Mountain range of the $andes, with its great western cord, is present with volcanic summits on the 5,000 msnm; among them they are told the Inacaliri (5,626 msnm), San Pedro (6,145 msnm), San Pablo (6,092 msnm), Panire (5,946 msnm) and Nose of Cablor (4,453 msnm), among others high made snow-white summits. By the dryness of the air, all these summits are perfectly visible from the city of Calama. These summits mark the communal limits towards the east.

Hydrography

The commune of Calama widely covers the Eastern sector with the river basin of the Loa. In the water gauge station of Yalquincha (NE of Calama) average of 4.3 ms attracts a load ³ /s to the year.

In high summits of the commune, exactly on the feet of the snowed ones of Toconce, Linzor and Cablor, diverse slopes are born from fresh water, that become brackish by the high salinity of the ground in the meeting from all these, which is well-known like Salado river; this river has been responsible for the salobridad of waters of the Loa from its meeting in Chiuchiu to its opening.

More to the north, and sirviedo of South margin to volcanos San Pedro and San Pablo slips the river San Pedro, that is born on the feet of Inacaliri volcano, with the name of Silala; in the middle of this course poza with joint feeding between the phreatic Silala and waters, the Eye of San Pedro arises a notable.

Climatografía

Between the 2,000 and the 3,000 msnm appears Cold the Desert Climate (Bwk ''); characterized by precipitations that do not exceed 75 annual mm, and annual average of temperatures of 11.2ºC (although the thermal amplitude surpasses 20ºC, with minims below cero in winter and principles on 30ºC in summer). The city of Calama and the town of Chiuchiu are in the margins of this climate.

On the 3,000 msnm appears the Climate of Tundra as a result of Height with Summer Precipitation (ETHw), with precipitations that distribute between the months of November and March, and that equal gets to propagate until altitudes inferiors. With characteristics similar to the Cold Desérico, it only presents/displays like difference the humidity that contribute these precipitations.

Biogeography

Can be distinguished two ecological formation force: the Inner Desert, properly so, in all the western margin of the commune, until the 3,000 msnm; and the Plateau, in the Eastern margin, to altitudes superiors.

In the Inner Desert, distributed between Eastern spurs of Pampas of the Tamarugal, level of Calama and Pampas of Moctezuma, two landscapes can be appreciated: the desert, properly so, with barren plains and some brief mountainous areas without vegetation, except the cactaceous appearance of columnares like the teasel; the fauna distributes between diversity of lizards, insects and arachnids adapted to the rustic life of the desert, between which it emphasizes palta and vinchuca, invertebrates that they prefer to lodge where abound the adobe, main construction equipment of the zone. The other landscape is pronounced through the diverse oases that arise in the shore of the Loa river, of which they are located in the Inner Desert are those of Calama (greatest of Chile, with more than 80 hás of extension and that crosses the city, as unique case), Chiuchiu and the Valley of Lasana; in him diversity of birds occurs, like the fishing Martin, the purple tagüita, the ivory palm of the north, the partridge and the heron; birds of prey like tucúquere and peuco. The vegetal carpet is made up of shrubs as the tar, grama salty, the tail of fox, chilca and totora, besides adapatados trees to grounds karsts like tamarugo, the carob tree, the pepper and chañar.

The altiplánico ecosystem in the commune of Calama pronounces from the cordilleranos faldeos and plains on the 3,000 msnm. Although it counts on more humidity than the desert, the conditions of height make an ecosystem highly selective, where the species present/display sophisticated adaptations to means. Two types of vegetal carpet are observed: first it is the pajonal and tolar, with compact vegetation in which they excel the brave straw, tola and other cordilleranos arbustillos; the second is a type of moist soil or called fertile valley of height bofedal, near superficial water courses, where compact grass adapted that the cattle occupies camelidae for its feeding, and of which grows especially the main bofedales of the commune are the Fertile valleys of Turi and Inacaliri; in addition, on the feet of volcanos, the llareta grows. In the middle of the pajonales and tolares they are possible to be appreciated tropillas of camelidaes in wild state like the guanaco; in the principles altitudes, and of sigilosa form, they inhabit the maximum predators of the Plateau: puma and the condor; running in plains it will be possible to be appreciated, from time to time, to the ñandú; in the middle of caves done by they themselves, it will be seen vizcacha taking sun, alerts to the surprise arrival of the culpeo fox or the Andean cat, other predators of the mountain range. Nearer the bofedales and streams and rivers, a high diversity of birds is appraised, between which they excel the giant ivory palm, the cornuda ivory palm, the Andean avoceta and the partridge of the fist; camelidaes grazing under the view of its shepherds as the flame and the alpaca, fundamental in the original life, because they serve for meat, milk, wool and load.

Population

The commune of Calama counted, for the Census of 1992 with 121,807 inhabitants, of who 119,692 were urban (distributed between the mining camping of Chuquicamata and the city of Calama) and 2,115 were rural. For the Census of 2002 the communal population grew enun 13.6%; all this when registering itself a population of 138,402 habiantes, of which 136,600 are urban and 1,802 rural ones. Alsr a commune almost abslutamente miner, the masculine population is major that the feminine one, to the salary 70,832 men and 67,570 women living in the commune. This picture is explained to notice that the men are many whom, to find prosperity for his families, they must let them in the earth from which they come predominantly (from IV the Region of Coquimbo, the men; and a nonsmaller number of women of VIII the Region of the Biobío).

On the other hand, the tendency to the diminution of the rural population demonstrates the lack of more efficient policies for the treatment of the Government with the indigenous towns, especially of the ethnic group lickanantai, pus these communities are little of rural equipment and services, reason why the families, mainly youngest, practically see themselves forced to change their ancestral earth by the city.

By to have belonged before to Bolivia (the Province of the Loa and all the Fist of Atacama), the oldest families of the city have kinship established with Bolivian cities, predominantly Uyuni, and cities and Argentine towns pertaining to the provinces of Salta and Jujuy. To them the Chilean citizens who by labor reasons have migrated to the city, in good number add themselves. Finally the foreign colonies add themselves that, although they are small - with exception of the Bolivian colony, have been from significant contribution to the city; of them they among others emphasize the colonies Croatian and Greek, that took to position parcels in the oasis from Calama and have supplied forage to the regional cattle, the Spanish colony and its contribution to the tourism, with the Hotel Casablanca, and the reduced colonies Chinese and Argentine. To these colonies the last originating migratory arrivals of Peru are due to add, Colombia and Venezuela, also by labor reasons.

Economy

Like Mining Capital of Chile, the economic pillar of the city is in the mining. Calama is the city-dormitory and of services of the cupríferos deposits of Chuquicamata, South Mine, Tame Mine, Gaby, Radomiro Tomic, Spence and Abra, besides other so many that at the moment are in prospection stages; Also the diverse industries and the metalmecánicos factories are important that they serve to the mining as sulphur and borax as the border, as well as to the nitrate mining of the Salar de Atacama. By the abundance of great deposits within the commune (except Spence, who is within the commune of Fat Mountain range), Calama is the commune whom more resources it generates from the mining of the copper, that also is the national economic pillar; in fact, of the 15 copper producing communes of the country, Calama produces 22.2% of the national total, surpassing to the rest of the cupríferas communes.

Agriculture is of local consumption, being the main cultures the carrot, the beetroot, the onion, garlic, chuño and quinoa, originating all these products of the indigenous communities of the interior. In the Oasis of Calama one works alfalfa and choclo.

The commerce presents/displays high activity, crowding together itself the diverse premises in center Historical, the avenues Granaderos and Balmaceda, and the Mall Calama, the second greatest one of all the Great North.

Transports and Communication channels

From pre-Hispanic times Calama it has been a neuralgic point for the communications between the surrounding regions, in the middle of the Depopulated one of Atacama. Today communications, although they are not still at the level of the category of Mining Capital of Chile that has Calama, show the importance of Calama like slug for the comuncaciones in the most barren desert of the world.

Highways

Calama does not comprise of the Pan-American Route, but it is to less than 120 km of this one, through two highways. First it is the Route CH-24, that communicate to Calama with the port of Tocopilla, and intersect with the Pan-American one to only 70 km, where the highway continues until Arica; second it is the Route CH-25, that communicates to the city with the port of Antofagasta and more is used, because connecting with Route CH-23 (towards San Pedro de Atacama and Argentina by the Border Step Sico) or Route CH-27 (from San Pedro de Atacama towards Argentina by the Border Step Jama), international access to the Runner is had Bioceánico, who communicates the ports of Antofagasta (Chile) and Saints (Brazil). In addition, the citizenship demands the paving of the Route CH-21, that communicates to the city with Bolivia by the Border Step Salar de Ollagüe, because very it is used by vehicles pertaining to altiplánicas miners and international buses. It is possible to emphasize that Calama communicates with Chuquicamata by the Chuquicamata-Calama Railcar, and also communicating by the Avenue Circumvallation of Calama corresponding to the Freeway of Calama that communicates previously to the routes already mentioned.

Also a deflection exists from Chiuchiu towards the rest of towns of the interior of the commune. It is possible to also indicate to the old way that united Calama with the port of Blanket, of which there are intentions to transform it into the new access to the coast, dice the danger that presents/displays Route CH-24 in Cuesta de Montecristo. Still they lack to pave and to recover the pavement of some of these highways of high traffic, which so far are paved with bischofita.

Railroad

In 1896 the station of trains of Calama was inaugurated, that connects Uyuni (Bolivia) with Antofagasta. This railway line has branch in Chuquicamata, which, adding to the sulphur mines of Ollagüe and other Bolivian miners, does of this ferrovía net a route miner. In addition, once to the week it leaves a wagon to passengers that connects Calama with Uyuni.

Airport

In the decade of 1950 the aerodrome of the Loa is qualified, to the suroriente of Calama. With time and until today one has become in the longer aerial track of Chile, with stop and flood aerial traffic. The one is this high flow of passengers that has motivated that the paralementarios of the region manage to elevate it to the category of Airport the International, because also it is wanted to connect by air to Calama with international the tourist destinies of the Center-West Region of South America (South of Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and the Northwest of Argentina).

Urban transport and Interrural

The collective mobilization covers, through 10 routes of minibuses and 26 lines of collective taxis (2 of them also transfer to Chuquicamata) the city of Calama. In addition, there is weekly mobilization between Calama and Chiuchiu, to 33 km to the east of the city.

As far as the interprovincial transport, 8 national companies happen through the city and they communicate with the rest of the region and the country. Also there is bus with international destiny to Uyuni, Jujuy and Salta.

Mass media

In the Montecristo Hill, to the west of Chuquicamata, the receiving antennas and emitting of the radial signals are located and the televising premises, regional and national. The press also written has a space in growth.

Radio and Television

In abierta signal of television there are 6 national channels; besides a local channel transmitted by the signal of the cable. The radio is distributed between multiple national signals, one regional radio and more local radios.

It presses Written

On the three local newspapers that circulate in the city, two depend on a national partnership and the other is independent; this one last one also counts on a newspaper of regional circulation. In addition, diverse institutional magazines circulate in Calama.

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