When Candelaria Arce was born on 20 July 1957, in Titihoyo, Potosí, Bolivia, her father, Felix Arce Paredes, was 25 and her mother, Angela Vargas, was 23. She died on 3 April 1960, at the age of 2.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Carlos, Luis, Francisco, Jesus, Manuel, Angel, Efrain, Jorge, Miguel, Ricardo.
Spanish: habitational name from Arce, a place in Cantabria and Burgos.
Basque: Castilianized form of a habitational name from Artzi (Castilian Arce), a place in Navarre, or any other place called with Basque artze ‘stony place’ (from arri ‘stone’ + the suffix -tze denoting abundance).
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