Machacamarca, Oruro
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Machacamarca is the hispanicized spelling of Template:Langx, 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]
Places of interest
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]
See also
References
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- ↑ National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia Script error: No such module "webarchive". (Spanish)
- ↑ www.katari.org (Aymara - Spanish) Machaqa: Nuevo.
- ↑ www.katari.org (Aymara - Spanish) Marka: Pueblo, ciudad.
- ↑ obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo/municipal/fichas/ (inactive)
- ↑ Development plan of Machacamarca Municipality, 2006 (Spanish)
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