[1] 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.
[2] Every 3 May, Santiago de Macha hosts the religious festival of Tinku, an aymará ritual consisting in a fist fighting challenge between two rival groups.
[3] Rebel leader Túpac Katari was born in Macha in 1750.
[2] Between October and November 1813 the town was the headquarters of the Army of the North, commanded by General Manuel Belgrano during the war of independence against the Spanish rule.