Calamarca (Hispanicized spelling) or Qala Marka
(
Aymara ''qala'' stone, ''marka'' village, town, place, land, "place of stone") is a town in the
La Paz Department in
Bolivia
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. It is the
seat
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of
Calamarca Municipality
Calamarca (in Hispanicized spelling) or Qala Marka ( Aymara ''qala'' stone, ''marka'' village, town, place, land, "place of stone") is the fourth municipal section of Aroma Province in the La Paz Department of Bolivia. It is located on the Altipl ...
, the fourth
municipal section of
Aroma Province
Aroma is one of the twenty provinces of the Bolivian La Paz Department. It is situated in the southern parts of the department. Its seat is Sica Sica (Sika Sika).
Location
Aroma province is located between 16° 43' and 17° 35' South and betwe ...
. It lies on the
Altiplano
The Altiplano (Spanish for "high plain"), Collao ( Quechua and Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla") or Andean Plateau, in west-central South America, is the most extensive high plateau on Earth outside Tibet. The plateau is located a ...
on the east side of the main road between
La Paz
La Paz (), officially known as Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Spanish pronunciation: ), is the seat of government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. With an estimated 816,044 residents as of 2020, La Paz is the third-most populous city in Bo ...
and
Patacamaya
Patacamaya or Patak Amaya ( Aymara) is a city in Bolivia, situated in the La Paz Department. It is the seat of the Patacamaya Municipality, the fifth municipal section of the Aroma Province. Patacamaya lies in the Altiplano, approximately 100& ...
, about 60 km south of La Paz.
Calamarca has a late 16th-century church with a silver altar worked in a rococo style, and two rococo altar pieces. It also contains the largest preserved amount of colonial
Ángeles arcabuceros paintings in a site.
Notable people
*
Rosmery Mollo - reproductive health activist.
See also
*
Urqu Jawira
References
Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Bolivia
Populated places in La Paz Department (Bolivia)
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