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ORURO DEPARTMENT
Oruro Department (PDF) - GENERAL DATA – ECONOMY - CITY OF ORURO - CITIES AND VILLAGES. Oruro is a city in Bolivia located about equidistant between La Paz and Sucre at approximately 3,710 meters above sea level. It is the capital of the department of Oruro. The city was first founded on November 1, 1606 by Don Manuel Castro de Padilla. As a silver mining center in the Urus region. At the time, it was named Real Villa de Don Felipe de Austria after the Spanish monarch, Philip III. It was eventually abandoned as the silver mines became exhausted. Oruro was reestablished in the late nineteenth century, as a tin mining center. For a time, the La Salvadora tin mine was the most important source of tin in the world. Gradually, this resource was also exhausted, and Oruro again went into a decline. The city does manage, however, to attract tourists to its carnival, the Carnaval de Oruro, considered one of the great folkloric events in South America for its masked "devil dances". The city of Oruro lays north of the salty lakes Uru-Uru and Poopó and it is just three hours (by bus) south from La Paz. Located at an altitude of 3709 above sea level, Oruro it’s well known for its cold weather. Warmer temperatures generally take place during August, September and October, after the worst of the winter chills and before the summer rains...
Statistical data of Oruro Department. Projected total population by sex and year, Projected total population by province and section of province, Demographic indicators, Number of common crime reports, Gross domestic product at constant prices by economic activity, Gross domestic product at current prices by economic activity, Exports by main economic activity level, Reported natural adverse events. |
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