What is "calama"

Calama may refer to the following places and jurisdictions :

In Algeria :

• Calama (Numidia) an Ancient city and former bishopric in the Roman province of Numidia, now a Latin Catholic titular see
• Guelma, modern Algerian city, the successor of Ancient Calama

In Latin America :

• Brazil
  • Calama, Rondônia
• Chile
  • Calama, Chile

United States :

• Kalama, Washington
• Kalama/ Calama River

Calama was a colonia in the Roman province of Numidia situated where Guelma in Algeria now stands.

G. Mokhtar places it just within the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis, to the east of Numidia, but it is generally believed to have been in Numidia, a province created probably in 198–199.