# Calamarca

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Town in La Paz Department, Bolivia

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; -68.11528 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](/source/Aymara_language) *qala* stone, *marka* village, town, place, land, "place of stone") is a town in the [La Paz Department](/source/La_Paz_Department%2C_Bolivia) in [Bolivia](/source/Bolivia). It is the [seat](/source/Administrative_centre) of [Calamarca Municipality](/source/Calamarca_Municipality), the fourth [municipal section](/source/Municipalities_of_Bolivia) of [Aroma Province](/source/Aroma_Province). It lies on the [Altiplano](/source/Altiplano) on the east side of the main road between [La Paz](/source/La_Paz) and [Patacamaya](/source/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](/source/%C3%81ngeles_arcabuceros) paintings in a site.[2]

## Notable people

- [Rosmery Mollo](/source/Rosmery_Mollo) - reproductive health activist.

## See also

- [Urqu Jawira](/source/Urqu_Jawira_(Aroma))

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Morales, Salustiano Ayma (2011). [*Aymara aru thakhinchawi*](https://web.archive.org/web/20160226164804/http://upiip.minedu.gob.bo/paginas/modulos_sistema/gestor_biblioteca/material/73/Aymara-Euphemia.pdf#) (PDF) (in Aymara). La Paz, Bolivia: Arcus Industria Gráfica for the Ministry of Education. p. 25. Archived from [the original](http://upiip.minedu.gob.bo/paginas/modulos_sistema/gestor_biblioteca/material/73/Aymara-Euphemia.pdf) (PDF) on 2016-02-26. Retrieved 2016-02-26.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-turismo_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-turismo_2-1) ["Calamarca"](http://www.boliviaentusmanos.com/turismo/destinos/calamarca.html). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20140829041622/http://www.boliviaentusmanos.com/turismo/destinos/calamarca.html) from the original on 29 August 2014.

- [Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Bolivia](https://web.archive.org/web/20091027220541/http://www.ine.gov.bo/)

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