San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca is a city in northwestern Argentina and capital of Catamarca Province, on the Río Valle River, at the feet of the Cerro Ambato. The city name is normally shortened as Catamarca.
The city of 684 km², located 500 m above sea level, has 159,000 inhabitants, with more than 200,000 counting the suburbia, what represents around 70% of the population of the province.