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Calamarca

Calamarca (Hispanicized spelling) or Qala Marka[1] (Aymara qala stone, marka village, town, place, land, "place of stone") is a town in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. It is the seat of Calamarca Municipality, the fourth municipal section of Aroma Province. It lies on the Altiplano on the east side of the main road between La Paz and Patacamaya, about 60 km south of La Paz.[2]

Calamarca
Qala Marka
Town
La Fiesta in Calamarca
Calamarca
Location within Bolivia
Coordinates: 16°54′23″S 68°06′55″W / 16.90639°S 68.11528°W / -16.90639; -68.11528Coordinates: 16°54′23″S 68°06′55″W / 16.90639°S 68.11528°W / -16.90639; -68.11528
Country Bolivia
DepartmentLa Paz Department
ProvinceAroma Province
MunicipalityCalamarca Municipality
Population
 (2012)
 • Total1,417
Time zoneUTC-4 (BOT)
ClimateET

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.[2]

Notable people

See also

References

  1. ^ Morales, Salustiano Ayma (2011). (PDF) (in Aymara). La Paz, Bolivia: Arcus Industria Gráfica for the Ministry of Education. p. 25. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-02-26. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  2. ^ a b "Calamarca". from the original on 29 August 2014.

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