About 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from the hamlet is Icalma Pass, 1,307 metres (4,288 ft) in elevation and on the border with Argentina.

The pass is traversed by a road, unpaved in Chile in 2017 and sometimes impassable during the Southern Hemisphere winter due to heavy snows.

[2] Icalma Airport is located 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) northeast of the hamlet.

[1] Icalma Lake drains northeastwards by way of a 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) long river named Rukanuco.

[3] The lake and village are in the ecoregion of the Valdivian Temperate Rain Forest.