Catamarca
[kat-uh-mahr-kuh; Spanish kah-tah-mahr-kah]
- a city in N Argentina.
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Catamarca is connected by railways with Rioja and Patquia and with Cordoba.
A town in the Province of Catamarca, near its eastern boundary.
Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2)P. L. Sclater
This river rises in the province of Catamarca, forty leagues off, running from south to north with little variation.
Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de La PlataWoodbine Parish
This people had lived from time immemorial in the valleys of Rioja and Catamarca, and had been under the suzerainty of the Incas.
ArgentinaW. A. Hirst
Cholla, a suburb of Catamarca, is inhabited wholly by Calchaqui Indians, a remnant of the original inhabitants of this region.