Definitions

1. Oruro is a city in Bolivia with a population of about 200,000, located about equidistant between La Paz and Sucre.
2. Oruro is a department in Bolivia, with an area of 53,588 km².
3. Oruro is a traditional mining centre, and preserver of many relics of a colonial past. (Web site)
4. Oruro was reestablished in the late nineteenth century, as a tin mining center. (Web site)
5. Oruro was named after the native tribe "Uru-Uru". (Web site)

Main Economic Accomplishment

1. His main economic accomplishment was to extend the Antofagasta-Calama Railroad to Oruro. (Web site)

Pagador

1. Oruro: in the Hotel Prefectural, entrance on Pagador (east side) between Aldana and Ballivi�n.

Sajama Province

1. I come from the Sajama Province of the Department of Oruro, I have lived here for more than 20 years and I have 4 children; 3 of them in school.
2. Sajama province is one of the sixteen provinces in the Oruro Department. (Web site)

Significant

1. What is significant, is the defeat of MAS candidates in La Paz and Oruro.

Puerto

1. Puerto de Mejillones province is one of the sixteen provinces in the Oruro Department. (Web site)

Assembly

1. The conflict turned into violence, and the assembly was moved to a military area in Oruro.

Highway

1. The highway from La Paz to Oruro is paved till Challapata town. (Web site)

Highest Peak

1. The highest peak is Nevado Sajama at 6,542 metres (21,463 ft) located in the department of Oruro.

Train

1. Coming from La Paz, you need to take a three hour bus ride to Oruro to catch the train. (Web site)

Half Hour

1. Getting there and away: From La Paz buses to Oruro leave about every half hour and leave from the Terrminal Terrestre on Plaza Antofagasta. (Web site)

Valle

1. Inicios Juan de Saavedra, adelantado de Almagro, llegó en 1535 al Titicaca y al valle de La Paz, para luego fundar Paria (Oruro) y Tupiza en 1536 al sur. (Web site)

Cerca

1. AIli fundó a Paria (cerca de Oruro).

Andes

1. At the end of the 90s almost 80% of us were from Oruro, but now we have 60,000 inhabitants from every corner of the country, above all from the Andes. (Web site)

Cold Weather

1. Located at an altitude of 3709 above sea level, Oruro its well known for its cold weather.

South

1. It's also popular to enter from Cochabamba to the east and Oruro to the south.

Eastern Half

1. Because the lake is long and wide (90 km by 32 km) it makes up the eastern half of the Oruro Department, a mining region in southwest Bolivia. (Web site)

Posteriormente

1. Posteriormente, se creó el departamento de Oruro.

Carnaval

1. We are dancing in the Carnaval de Oruro(Oruro), Urkupiña (Cochabamba), Corso de Corsos (Cochabamba) and others places around of Bolivian.

Mining Towns

1. The names of some mining towns, notably Potos� and Oruro, are world famous. (Web site)

Potos

1. The names of some mining towns, notably Potosí and Oruro, are world famous. (Web site)
2. Almost half the population lives on the plateau, which contains Oruro, Potosí, and La Paz. (Web site)

Potosí

1. The demonstrations spread quickly to other areas including La Paz, Oruro, and Potosí as well as rural areas. (Web site)
2. The simple fact that protests never spread beyond Potosí and were assuaged quickely in Oruro attests to the limited regionalist nature of the protests.

Uyuni

1. Short city tour in Oruro and then night transport by train to the small city of Uyuni. (Web site)

Potosi

1. Much of Western Bolivia is at the same altitude or higher, including Lake Titicaca, the Salar de Uyuni, and the cities of Oruro and Potosi. (Web site)
2. The names of some mining towns, notably Potosi and Oruro, are world famous.

Bolivian Department

1. The Southern Aymara dialect is spoken in the eastern half of the Iquique province in northern Chile and in most of the Bolivian department of Oruro. (Web site)

Small Town

1. Sabaya is a small town in the Bolivian Oruro Department.

Province

1. Puerto de Mejillones is a province in the western parts of the Bolivian department of Oruro. (Web site)
2. The province is located at a turnoff from the major highway that links Cochabamba and Oruro. (Web site)

Chile

1. Our exit was to take a bus from Oruro to Putre in Chile.

Road

1. You can see several of these made of mud bricks on the road between Oruro and La Paz.
2. From Potos� (4,000m), follow the road to Oruro for a few km then turning left, dropping to 3,700m.

Main Highway

1. Biking the main highway from Oruro to La Paz is both boring and dangerous.

Capital

1. It is the capital of the department of Oruro. (Web site)

Ciudad

1. Vista panoramica en el corazon de la ciudad, dentro de la ruta del majestuoso patrimonio cultural el carnaval de oruro.
2. Ayer, los 18 convocados para el choque contra San José estuvieron puntualmente en la Terminal de Buses para viajar a la ciudad de Oruro.

Population

1. Bolívar is found where the provinces of Potosí, Oruro and Cochabamba meet, at some 3.500 to 4.200 meters over sea level, with a population of 12 thousand. (Web site)

Sea-Level

1. It is located at at, 3,788 m above sea-level, 185 km south of the department's capital, Oruro, and 20 km west of Lake Poopo.

Morales

1. So too was Alberto Aguilar from Oruro, who is sympathetic to Morales. (Web site)
2. Another governor, a supporter of Morales in Oruro department, also lost. (Web site)

City

1. From the Terminal de Omnibuses Hernado Siles, northeast of the center of Oruro you will easilly find a bus connecting any major city. (Web site)

Cidade

1. Oruro é um departamento da Bolívia, sua capital é a cidade de Oruro.

Oruro Department

1. The highest peak is Nevado Sajama at 6,542 metres (21,463 ft) located in the Oruro Department.
2. Turco is a municipality (municipio) in the Oruro Department of Sajama Province, Bolivia.
3. The market in the Andean community of Curahuara de Carangas, Oruro department, near the border with Chile. (Web site)

Department

1. Oruro, city in western Bolivia, capital of Oruro Department, located on a plateau about 3700 m (about 12,140 ft) above sea level.
2. The same day, campesinos in Oruro department announced they will join the protests by blocking major highways in Oruro on Sept. (Web site)
3. Sabaya is a small town in the Bolivia n Oruro Department. (Web site)

Famous

1. Oruro - Famous for its carnival Tupiza - A small town in Bolivia close to the border with Argentina.
2. The most famous of these subvolcanic deposits are Oruro, Potosi, Llallagua, and Colquechaca, but there are 40 of them altogether.

Carnival

1. The "devil dances" at the annual carnival of Oruro are one of the great folkloric events of South America, as is the lesser known carnival at Tarabuco.

Santa Cruz

1. There is an important road that connects the road to Oruro in the cities of Cochabamba and Santa Cruz.

Sucre

1. The city is connected by road with the city of Oruro where you can access the cities of Sucre, Potosí and south of the country.
2. Finalmente, el 5 de septiembre de 1826, durante la presencia del Mariscal de Ayacucho Antonio José de Sucre, fue creado el Departamento de Oruro. (Web site)

Chuquisaca

1. La misma escena repitió cuando el Libertador llegó a Oruro, después a Potosí y finalmente a Chuquisaca.
2. La misma escena repiti� cuando el Libertador lleg� a Oruro, despu�s a Potos� y finalmente a Chuquisaca. (Web site)

Cochabamba

1. Another option is to take a flight from Buenos Aires to Cochabamba, go from this city to Oruro by bus and from there to Uyuni by train. (Web site)
2. Carnival is celebrated throughout the country, most notably in Oruro, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz and Tarija.
3. About mid way between Cochabamba, Oruro and La Paz, Quime is in a deep forested valley surrounded by high peaks of the Andes. (Web site)

Paz

1. Límites: al norte, el Beni; al sud, Potosí y Chuquisaca; al este, Santa cruz; y al oeste, La Paz y Oruro. (Web site)
2. The city of Oruro lies north of the salty lakes Uru-Uru and Poopó and it is just three hours (by bus) south from La Paz. (Web site)
3. Worth mentioning is the win of Movimiento Sin Miedo (MSM) in MAS territories such as the cities of La Paz and Oruro, of PAIS in Sucre and AS in Potosi.

Bolivia

1. Poopó is a province in the Oruro Department, Bolivia.
2. Sajama is a province in the Oruro Department, Bolivia.
3. Lake in the Andes in the Oruro department, Bolivia, situated some 3,686 m/12,093 ft above sea-level.

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