Calamarca

Calamarca is a village in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Calamarca is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Calamarca in the province of flavor and lies at an altitude of 4053 m. Calamarca located on a 20 km wide north- south running flat portion of the Bolivian Altiplano, directly east of the village rise the Vorgebirgsketten the Serranía de Sicasica that rises here to just under 5,000 m.

Geography

Calamarca lies between the mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Central in the Andean dry climate of the Altiplano with a typical diurnal climate in which to strengthen the mean daily temperatures fluctuate as the seasonal variations.

The average annual temperature of the region is around 9 ° C, the monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 7 ° C in July and 12 ° C in December (see climate chart Comanche ). The mean annual precipitation is about 560 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 10 mm in the months of May to August and just over 100 mm in January and February.

Traffic network

Calamarca located 59 kilometers by road south of La Paz, the capital of the department.

From La Paz from the paved highway Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto, from there the Ruta 1 further 47 kilometers to the south to Calamarca and on about Patacamaya after Caracollo where the Ruta 1 next to Oruro leads to the south and the Ruta 4 branches off to the east located Cochabamba.

Population

The population of the city has increased in the past two decades by more two-thirds:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of collana 95.7 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.

Tourism

Tourist jewel of the village is the church of Calamarca, an architectural monument of the 16th century. Built in the style of Mestizenbarock and Renaissance construction protects relics in the form of woodcarving and driven gold and silver work from the time of the Viceroyalty of Peru.