Calamarca

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 Qala Marka
Town
La Fiesta in Calamarca
Calamarca Location within Bolivia
Coordinates: 16°54′23″S 68°06′55″W
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 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.

See also

• Urqu Jawira