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Oruro (Hispanicized spelling) or Uru Uru [1] is a city in Bolivia with a population of 264,683 (2012 calculation), [2] about halfway between La Paz and Sucre in the Altiplano, approximately 3,709 meters (12,169 ft) above sea level.
Oruro (Spanish pronunciation:; Quechua: Uru Uru; Aymara: Ururu) is a department of Bolivia, with an area of 53,588 km 2 (20,690 sq mi). Its capital is the city of Oruro . According to the 2012 census, the Oruro department had a population of 494,178.
The Diablada, dance primeval, typical and main of Carnival of Oruro a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity since 2001 in Bolivia (Image: Fraternidad Artística y Cultural "La Diablada". Llamerada Dancers in the Carnival. The Carnival of Oruro is a religious and cultural festival in Oruro, Bolivia. Originally an indigenous ...
Cercado province is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro Department. It is located between 17° 22' and 18° 35' South and between 66° 21' and 67° 20' West. It borders Tomas Barrón Province and La Paz Department in the northwest, Nor Carangas Province and Saucarí Province in the west, Poopó Province and Pantaléon Dalence Province in the southeast, and Cochabamba Department in the east ...
Club Deportivo Totora Real Oruro, known as CDT Real Oruro, is a Bolivian football club from Oruro.The club was founded on 30 April 1962, and competes in the first tier of the Oruro Football Association Championships, holding home matches at the Estadio Jesús Bermúdez, with a capacity of 28,000 people.
Oruro Department (Spanish: Departamento de Oruro) was a department of Bolivia, a constituent country of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation, which existed from 1836 to 1839. [1] Created alongside the confederate state, its capital was Oruro .
Juan Mendoza Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Juan Mendoza) (IATA: ORU, ICAO: SLOR) is an extremely high elevation airport serving the city of Oruro, the capital of the Oruro Department in Bolivia. The airport is in the eastern part of the city, which is in the altiplano of Bolivia. There is distant mountainous terrain east and west of the airport. [3]
The town is situated south of Oruro near the south-eastern shore of Lake Uru Uru at the road and railway that lead to Poopó. Machacamarca is the hispanicized spelling of Aymara : Machaqa Marka , machaqa = new, [ 2 ] marka = village, town: [ 3 ] So the name means "new village" or "new town".