Chama may refer to:
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Places
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Chama, Colorado
Chama is an unincorporated community and U.S. Post Office in Costilla County, Colorado, United States. The ZIP Code of the Chama Post Office is 81126.
History
Chama is located in the Rio Culebra valley which is part of the Sangre de Crist ...
, USA, an unincorporated town
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Chama, New Mexico
Chama is a village in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 1,022 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. The village is located in the Rocky Mountains about south of the Colorado-New Mexico border.
Geography
Cha ...
, USA, a village
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Chama, Zambia
Chama is a small town in the Eastern Province of Zambia, and is headquarters of Chama District. It is one of the most remote district headquarters in the country, lying just inside the eastern edge of the upper Luangwa Rift Valley, at the foot o ...
, a small town and district
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Chama District
Chama District with the headquarters at Chama is the largest district of the Eastern Province in Zambia and includes a large wilderness in the Upper Luangwa valley just north-east of the North Luangwa National Park. It is made up of two constitu ...
, a district
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Chama River (Venezuela)
The Río Chama (), is one of the main rivers of the state of Mérida in Venezuela. The headwaters of the Chama are the Mifafí high lands, in the Andes Range, near the town of Apartaderos. Its outlet is at Lake Maracaibo.
From the headwaters ...
, aka ''Río Chama'', a river in Venezuela
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Rio Chama (Rio Grande)
The Rio Chama, a major tributary river of the Rio Grande, is located in the U.S. states of Colorado and New Mexico. The river is about long altogether. From its source to El Vado Dam its length is about , from El Vado Dam to Abiquiu Dam is about ...
, a tributary of the Rio Grande
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Chama (Maya site)
Chama (Chamá) is a small Late-Classic Maya highland site, situated in the Chixoy River valley of the Alta Verapaz department of Guatemala, some fifty kilometers north-west of San Pedro Carchá. Small-scale excavations were carried out in the ear ...
, an archaeological site in the Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
Other
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Chama (surname) Chama is a surname of Zambian origin that may refer to:
* Adrian Chama (born 1989), Zambian footballer
*Albert Chama, Zambian Anglican bishop
* Bronson Chama (born 1986), Zambian footballer
* Clatous Chama (born 1991), Zambian footballer
* Davies ...
*Chama people or
Ese Ejja people
The Ese Ejja are an indigenous people of Bolivia and Peru, in the southwestern Amazon basin. 1,687 Ese Ejja live in Bolivia, in the Pando and Beni Departments, in the foothills along the Beni and the Madre de Dios Rivers. In Peru, they live alon ...
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''Chama'' (bivalve), a genus of bivalve molluscs
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-chama, a Japanese honorific
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Chama, Archbishop of Kalocsa
Chama, also Sayna or Chemma ( hu, Csama or ''Soma''; died between 1171 and 1176), was a Hungarian prelate in the twelfth century. He was successively Bishop of Eger from 1158 to around 1166, then Archbishop of Kalocsa between around 1169 and 117 ...
, 12th-century Hungarian prelate
*''Chama'', a variant name of
Kamadeva
Kama ( sa, काम, ), also known as Kamadeva and Manmatha, is the Hindu god of love and desire, often portrayed alongside his consort, Rati.
The Atharva Veda regards Kamadeva as the wielder of the creative power of the universe, also descri ...
, the Hindu god of love
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Chama (investment)
A Chama is an informal cooperative society that is normally used to pool and invest savings by people in East Africa, and particularly Kenya. The chama phenomenon is also referred to as "micro-savings groups". "Chama" (also spelled Kyama by certain ...
, a Swahili word meaning a welfare or investment group of people i.e. Merry-go-round fund raising group
*, a Dutch tanker in service 1947-55
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