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2. Uru Uru Lake - Wikipedia

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   Uru Uru Lake is a lake in the Oruro Department in Bolivia. It is fed by the Desaguadero River and the Jach'a Jawira . It is situated at an elevation of 3,686 m, its surface area is 214 km 2 .

3. Uru people - Wikipedia

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   The Uru or Uros (Uru: Qhas Qut suñi) are an indigenous people of Bolivia and Peru. They live on a still-growing group of about 120 self-fashioned floating islands in Lake Titicaca near Puno. They form three main groups: the Uru-Chipaya, Uru-Murato, and Uru-Iruito. The Uru-Iruito still inhabit the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca and the ...

4. List of lakes of Bolivia - Wikipedia

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   The geography and climate of Bolivia has led to the formation a wide variety of lakes, from salt saturated lakes in the Altiplano to oxbow lakes in the eastern lowlands. Many of Bolivias lakes are formed only seasonally during the austral summer and remains for the rest of the year as salt flats in the altiplano or swamps in the eastern lowlands.

5. Bolivians remove tons of trash from Lake Uru Uru, home to ...

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   Volunteers and local leaders in Bolivia's high-altitude city of Oruro suited up in safety gear on Saturday to clean the polluted banks of the Andean country's Lake Uru Uru, home to flamingos and ...

6. Oruro - Wikipedia

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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. It is Bolivia's fifth-largest city by population, after Santa Cruz de la Sierra, El Alto, La Paz, and Cochabamba.

7. Bolivia wildfires burn record area, scorching homes and farms

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   Wildfires in Bolivia have burned through more than 10 million hectares (24.7 million acres) this year, mostly in the country's tropical east, smashing records for its worst-ever fire season and ...

8. Desaguadero River (Bolivia and Peru) - Wikipedia

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   The Desaguadero River, also known as Risawariru or Uchusumain, is a river shared between Bolivia and Peru. It drains Lake Titicaca from the southern part of the river basin, flowing south and draining approximately five percent of the lake's flood waters into Lake Uru Uru and Lake Poopó. [1] Its source in the north is very near the Peruvian ...

9. Oruro Department - Wikipedia

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   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.