Cariquima, Indigenous community in Colchane, Chile

Cariquima is a highland village in the Tarapacá Region of Chile, a few kilometers south of Colchane, on the slopes of Nevado Cariquima or Mama Huanapa. It is a central meeting point for Aymara communities. Its old church was declared a historic monument in 2006, and the Cariquima River runs nearby.

The settlement developed as an Aymara community in the Andes over many generations. In 2003, the Chilean Air Force built an airport here, improving connections with other regions.

The town's patron saint is San Juan, celebrated every 24 November. Catholicism arrived in the colonial period and was later promoted through twentieth-century Chilean state policies; today about half of the residents are Pentecostal. The name Cariquima has no confirmed origin in Aymara or Quechua, and one version renders it as "Refuge of the brave".

Cariquima lies a few kilometres south of Colchane, on the slopes of Nevado Cariquima or Mama Huanapa. The town has a first-aid post, a school teaching only basic education, and an aerodrome built by the Chilean Air Force in 2003. The Cariquima River runs near the settlement.

The name Cariquima has no confirmed origin: according to Mamani it comes from neither Aymara nor Quechua, but probably from languages that died out early. A second version translates it as "Refuge of the brave". The town lies beside the Cariquima River, a few kilometres south of Colchane.