Official Name: | Machacamarca |
Native Name: | Machaqa Marka |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Bolivia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Bolivia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | La Paz Department |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Aroma Province |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Colquencha Municipality |
Subdivision Type4: | Canton |
Subdivision Name4: | Nueva Esperanza de Machacamarca Canton |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2001 |
Population Total: | 1400 |
Timezone: | BOT |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Coordinates: | -16.8833°N -80°W |
Elevation M: | 3910 |
Machacamarca is a small town in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. It is the seat of the Nueva Esperanza de Machacamarca Canton, one of the five cantons of the Colquencha Municipality which is the sixth municipal section of the Aroma Province. The town is situated at the railway that leads from La Paz to Oruro. At the time of census 2001 Machacamarca had a population of 1,400.[1]
Machacamarca is the hispanicized spelling of ay|'''Machaqa Marka''', machaqa = new,[2] marka = village, town:[3] So the name means "new village" or "new town".
The people in the Colquencha Municipality are mainly Aymara (94.6%) and most citizens speak Aymara followed by Spanish.[4]