Country Bolivia Time zone BST (UTC-4) Local time Thursday 11:03 PM Municipality Colquencha | Department La Paz Department Elevation 3,910 m Population 1,400 (2001) Province Aroma Province | |
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Canton Nueva Esperanza de Machacamarca Canton Weather 7°C, Wind SE at 8 km/h, 99% Humidity | ||
Machacamarca is a small town in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. It is the seat of the Nueva Esperanza de Machacamarca Canton, one of the five cantons of the Colquencha Municipality which is the sixth municipal section of the Aroma Province. The town is situated at the railway that leads from La Paz to Oruro. At the time of census 2001 Machacamarca had a population of 1,400.
Map of Machacamarca, Bolivia
Machacamarca is the hispanicized spelling of Aymara: Machaqa Marka, machaqa = new, marka = village, town: So the name means "new village" or "new town".
The people in the Colquencha Municipality are mainly Aymara (94.6%) and most citizens speak Aymara followed by Spanish.
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Machacamarca (Aroma) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA