caldera A caldera ( ) is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcanic eruption. An eruption that ejects large volumes of magma over a short period of time can cause significant detriment to the str ...

is a volcanic feature formed by the collapse of land following a volcanic eruption. Caldera may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Caldera (band) Caldera was an American band that combined jazz, funk, and rock with Latin music. Return to Forever and Weather Report influenced Caldera, but its members were also influenced by soul, Afro-cuban, salsa, samba, and Peruvian music. Biography Mem ...

, an American band ** ''Caldera'' (Caldera album), 1976 * Caldera (Sam Rivers album), 2022 * ''Caldera'' (film), a 2012 animated short film * Caldera, a city in the video game ''

Red Steel 2 ''Red Steel 2'' is a first-person action video game developed by Ubisoft Paris and published by Ubisoft. It is a standalone sequel to '' Red Steel''. Released worldwide for the Wii video game console in March 2010, the game received generally p ...

'' * Caldera, a city in the video game ''

Morrowind ''The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind'' is a 2002 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the third installment in ''The Elder Scrolls'' series, following 1996's ''The Elder Scrolls I ...

'' * Caldera, an island in the video game '' Call of Duty: Warzone'' * Caldera, a town/fortress in the video game '' Risen 2: Dark Waters'' * Dr. Caldera, a character in ''Better Call Saul''

Businesses

Caldera (company) Caldera, Inc. was a Canopy-funded software company founded in October 1994 and incorporated on 25 January 1995 by former Novell employees Bryan Wayne Sparks, Ransom H. Love and others to develop the Caldera Network Desktop (CND) and later cre ...

, a US-based software company 1994–2002 **

Caldera UK DR-DOS is a disk operating system for IBM PC compatibles, originally developed by Gary A. Kildall's Digital Research, Digital Research, Inc. and derived from Concurrent PC DOS 6.0, which was an advanced successor of CP/M-86. Upon its introd ...

, a subsidiary 1996–1999 ** Caldera Deutschland, a subsidiary 1995–2001 **

Caldera Thin Clients Lineo was a thin client and embedded systems company spun out of Caldera Thin Clients by 20 July 1999. History Caldera Thin Clients, Inc., had been created as a subsidiary of Caldera, Inc., on 2 September 1998. Caldera Thin Clients' origin ...

, later Lineo, a subsidiary formed in 1998 **

Caldera Systems Caldera International, Inc., earlier Caldera Systems, was an American software company that existed from 1998 to 2002 and developed and sold Linux- and Unix-based operating system products. Caldera Systems was created in August 1998 as a spinoff ...

, later Caldera International, a subsidiary formed in 1998 **

Caldera International Caldera International, Inc., earlier Caldera Systems, was an American software company that existed from 1998 to 2002 and developed and sold Linux- and Unix-based operating system products. Caldera Systems was created in August 1998 as a spinoff ...

, successor to Caldera Systems from 2001 *** Caldera K.K., a Japanese subsidiary formed in 2001 **

Caldera OpenLinux Caldera OpenLinux is a defunct Linux distribution produced by Caldera, Inc. (and its successors Caldera Systems and Caldera International) that existed from 1997 to 2002. Based on the German LST Power Linux distribution, OpenLinux was an early hi ...

, a Linux distribution often called "Caldera" * Caldera (France), or Caldera Graphics SAS, an unrelated imaging software company founded in 1991

People

* C. T. Caldera, chief of staff of the Sri Lanka Army 1976-1977 *

Henry Caldera Henry Caldera () (19 August 1937 – 11 October 2006) was a Sri Lankan singer, songwriter, and musician. Early life and education Caldera was born on 19 August 1937. Completely blind at the age of 14, he attended the Seeduwa Deaf and Blin ...

(1937–2007), Sri Lankan singer, songwriter, and musician * Henry Caldera (football manager) (born 1959), Curaçao professional football manager * Jorge Herrera Caldera (born 1963), Mexican politician and Governor of Durango *

Junior Caldera Jérôme Dumas (), better known as Junior Caldera, is a French disc jockey from Paris. A multi-instrumentalist, Caldera was influenced by many musical styles and made rock music before becoming involved in house music in 2002 whilst working as a st ...

, French disc jockey *

Louis Caldera Louis Edward Caldera (born April 1, 1956) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the director of the White House Military Office from January to May 2009, as the 17th United States Secretary of the Army from Ju ...

(born 1956), American politician * Marcelo Alberto Bielsa Caldera (born 1955), Argentine football manager * María Lourdes Caldera (born 1983), Venezuelan pageant titleholder *

Miguel Caldera Miguel Caldera (1548–1597) was an important figure in the colonization of Mexico's northern frontier immediately following the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. Early life Caldera was the illegitimate son of a Castilian soldier named Pedro C ...

(1548–1597), figure in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire of Mexico *

Rafael Caldera Rafael Antonio Caldera Rodríguez ( ; 24 January 1916 – 24 December 2009) was a Venezuelan politician and academician who was the 46th and 51st president of Venezuela from 1969 to 1974 and again from 1994 to 1999, thus becoming the longest se ...

(1916–2009), former president of Venezuela * Rafael Antonio Bielsa Caldera (born 1953), Argentinian politician * Renzo Caldera (or Caldara), Italian bobsledder

Places

Caldera, Chile Caldera is a port city and commune in the Copiapó Province of the Atacama Region in northern Chile. It has a harbor protected by breakwaters, being the port city for the productive mining district centering on Copiapó to which it is connected ...

Caldera Basin Caldera Basin () is a sedimentary basin located in the coast of northern Chile west of Copiapó. The basin has a fill of marine sediments of Late Cenozoic age. With a north–south extension of and an east–west width of the basin occupies an ...

* Caldera District, Esparza, Costa Rica *

Caldera Port Caldera Port (), is the main freight port in the Pacific side of Costa Rica, located in the Esparza canton of the Puntarenas province. Description There are two operating contiguous ports in the location, the regular container port with three d ...

, Puntarenas, Costa Rica * Caldera (Equatorial Guinea), a volcano * Caldera, Chiriquí, Panama * Caldera River, Panama *

La Caldera La Caldera is a small town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.Ministerio del Interior
It is ...

, Salta Province, Argentina

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