When Carmelo Tarcaya was born on 10 May 1930, in San Pedro de Quemes, Nor Lípez, Potosí, Bolivia, his father, Tomas Tarcaya, was 45 and his mother, Bernardina Pantoja Castillo, was 32. He had at least 2 sons and 3 daughters with Antonia Quiquinte Coronel. He died on 2 July 1978, in Perico, El Carmen, Jujuy, Argentina, at the age of 48.
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Of early Christian origin, referring to ‘Our Lady of Carmel’, a title of the Virgin Mary. Carmel is the name (meaning ‘garden’ or ‘orchard’ in Hebrew) of a mountain in the Holy Land near modern Haifa, which was populated from very early Christian times by hermits. They were later organized into the Carmelite order of monks. The name is used mainly by Roman Catholics.
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