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: | Oruro Department |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Pantaléon Dalence Province |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Machacamarca Municipality |
Subdivision Type4: | Canton |
Subdivision Name4: | Machacamarca Canton |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2001 |
Population Total: | 2206 |
Timezone: | BOT |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Coordinates: | -18.1667°N -68°W |
Elevation M: | 3728 |
Machacamarca is a small town in the Pantaléon Dalence Province in the Oruro Department in Bolivia. It is the seat of the Machacamarca Municipality and of the Machacamarca Canton. At the time of census 2001 it had a population of 2,206.[1] The town is situated south of Oruro near the south-eastern shore of Lake Uru Uru at the road and railway that lead to Poopó.
Machacamarca is the hispanicized spelling of Aymara: '''Machaqa Marka''', machaqa = new,[2] marka = village, town:[3] So the name means "new village" or "new town".
The people in the Machacamarca Municipality are mainly Quechua (80.7%).[4]
Some of the tourist attractions of Machacamarca are the railway museum, the church in the colonial village of Sora Sora, hot springs, chullpas and ruins.[5]