The name Calandria comes from an old Mexican story about a singer named Anatia, who sang as beautifully as the Mexican bird Calandria. When she died, they found beautiful agates while digging her grave and from there to them they named Calandria.
Calandria is one of the top 20 locations in Mexico. It is located in the state of Chihuahua, in the area of Chihuahua city, which is intersect by the major Mexican mountain range system – the Sierra Madre Occidental, specifically then around the smaller town of Matachi.
Calandria agates belong to a group of three agate sites that are similar, they are Calandria, Casas Grandas and Parcelas agates. Calandria are more colorful and interesting than Casas and Parcelas.
Unfortunately, Calandria often have a large number of cracks, especially in larger sizes, there are very few clean stones. The stones here are mostly yellow, white, blue, pink, black and white and rarely purple. Calandria agates have several completely unique types; perfect deep parallax effects (absolutely amazing drawings in pure chalcedony), Purple Passion (one of the most purple agates in the world in combinations with pink and blue-white, often with crystals of quartz, amethyst and smoky) and Fuzzy agates (flakes, snow - thousands of circles and balls in chalcedony are as if drawn with a snow brush which creates amazing details).
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