Calamarca (in Hispanicized spelling) or Qala Marka
(
Aymara ''qala'' stone, ''marka'' village, town, place, land, "place of stone") is the fourth
municipal section of
Aroma Province
Aroma is one of the twenty provinces of the Bolivian La Paz Department. It is situated in the southern parts of the department. Its seat is Sica Sica (Sika Sika).
Location
Aroma province is located between 16° 43' and 17° 35' South and betwe ...
in the
La Paz Department of
Bolivia
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. It is located on the
Altiplano
The Altiplano (Spanish for "high plain"), Collao (Quechua and Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla") or Andean Plateau, in west-central South America, is the most extensive high plateau on Earth outside Tibet. The plateau is located at the ...
and its
seat
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Types of seat
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is the town of
Calamarca
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 sectio ...
.
The municipality was created by law on 21 December 1948. At present it is divided into seven
cantons
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(''cantones''): Calamarca, Vilaque Copata, Sivicani, Ajoya, Villa Carmen de Caluyo,
San Antonio de Senkata and Cosmini.
Villages
*
Copata
See also
*
Jach'a Quta
*
Urqu Jawira
Notes and references
Sources
Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Bolivia
Municipalities of La Paz Department (Bolivia)
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