Calamarca Municipality

Calamarca
Qala Marka
Municipality
Calamarca

Location within Bolivia

Coordinates: BO 16°54′S 68°7′W / 16.900°S 68.117°W / -16.900; -68.117
Country  Bolivia
Department La Paz Department
Province Aroma Province
Seat Calamarca
Population (2012)[1]
  Total 14,604

Calamarca (in hispanicized spelling) or Qala Marka[2] (Aymara qala stone, marka village, town, place, land, "place of stone") is the fourth municipal section of Aroma Province in the La Paz Department of Bolivia. It is located on the Altiplano and its seat is the town of Calamarca.[1]

The municipality was created by law on 21 December 1948. At present it is divided into seven cantons (cantones): Calamarca, Vilaque Copata, Sivicani, Ajoya, Villa Carmen de Caluyo, San Antonio de Senkata and Cosmini.[1]

See also

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 3 "Gobierno Autónomo Municipal de Calamarca" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 26 February 2016.
  2. Morales, Salustiano Ayma (2011). Aymara aru thakhinchawi (PDF) (in Aymara). La Paz, Bolivia: Arcus Industria Gráfica for the Ministry of Education. p. 25. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2016.

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Coordinates: 16°54′00″S 68°07′00″W / 16.9°S 68.1167°W / -16.9; -68.1167

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