Country Bolivia Municipality Calamarca Municipality Climate ET Local time Monday 4:49 AM | Department La Paz Department Time zone -4 (UTC-4) Population 943 (2001) Province Aroma Province | |
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Weather 6°C, Wind E at 6 km/h, 92% Humidity | ||
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. 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.
Map of Calamarca, Bolivia
Calamarca has a late 16th century church with a silver altar worked in a rococo style, and two rococo altar pieces. It also contains colonial paintings.
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Calamarca Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA