Calamarca

Town in La Paz Department, Bolivia

Calamarca Qala Marka
Town
La Fiesta in Calamarca
16°54′23″S 68°06′55″W / 16.90639°S 68.11528°W / -16.90639; -68.11528
Country	Bolivia
Department	La Paz Department
Province	Aroma Province
Municipality	Calamarca Municipality
Population (2012)
• Total	1,417
Time zone	UTC-4 (BOT)
Climate	ET

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 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

Rosmery Mollo - reproductive health activist.

References

^ Morales, Salustiano Ayma (2011). Aymara aru thakhinchawi (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.
^ ^a ^b "Calamarca". Archived from the original on 29 August 2014.