Santiago de Macha or Macha is a

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n locality in the department of Potosí,

Chayanta Province Chayanta is a province in the northern parts of the Bolivian Potosí Department. Its capital is Colquechaca. Location Chayanta province is one of sixteen provinces in the Potosí Department. It is located between 18° 23' and 19° 6' South and ...

Colquechaca Municipality Colquechaca (in hispanicized spelling) or Qullqichaka (Quechua ''qullqi'' silver, money, ''chaka'' bridge,Teofilo Laime AjacopaBolivian Quechua dictionary(Quechua - Spanish, Spanish Quechua) "silver bridge") is the first municipal section of the C ...

Macha Canton Macha () was a sovereignty goddess of ancient Ireland associated with the province of Ulster, particularly the sites of Navan Fort (''Eamhain Mhacha'') and Armagh (''Ard Mhacha''), which are named after her.Koch, John T. ''Celtic Culture: A H ...

. Macha had a population of 1,850 in 2001 and the canton was inhabited by 8,769 people. Most of the young adults works abroad, and the marketplace of the village opens only on Sunday. The main economic activity of Macha is

subsistence agriculture Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow food crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings. Subsistence agriculturalists target farm output for survival and for mostly local requirements, with little or no su ...

.''La Nación'' newspaper, 16 June 200
(cited on this website)
Every 3 May, Santiago de Macha hosts the religious festival of ''

Tinku Tinku, a Bolivian Aymara tradition, began as a form of ritualistic combat. In the Quechua language, it means “meeting-encounter". During this ritual, men and women from different communities will meet and begin the festivities by dancing. The w ...

'', an aymará ritual consisting in a fist fighting challenge between two rival groups. Rebel leader

Túpac Katari Túpac Katari or Catari (also Túpaj Katari) (c. 1750 – November 13, 1781), born Julián Apasa Nina, was the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous Aymara people, Aymara leader of a major insurrection in colonial-era Upper Peru (now Boli ...

was born in Macha in 1750. Between October and November 1813 the town was the headquarters of the

Army of the North The Army of the North ( es, link=no, Ejército del Norte), contemporaneously called Army of Peru, was one of the armies deployed by the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata in the Spanish American wars of independence. Its objective was fre ...

, commanded by General

Manuel Belgrano Manuel José Joaquín del Corazón de Jesús Belgrano y González (3 June 1770 – 20 June 1820), usually referred to as Manuel Belgrano (), was an Argentine public servant, economist, lawyer, politician, journalist, and military leader. He ...

during the war of independence against the Spanish rule. Mitre, Bartolomé: ''Historia de Belgrano''. Imprenta de Mayo, Buenos Aires, 1859. V. II., page 226

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Colquechaca Municipality: population data and map
Populated places in Potosí Department {{Potosí-geo-stub