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21 unusual facts about Oruro


Bolivian Constituent Assembly of 2006–07

On December 8, 2007 the Constituent Assembly moved its sessions to Oruro, citing safety concerns.

Bolivian football league system

In order to qualify for the Nacional B there are 9 subdivisions at the 3rd level: the Departmental Championships or Regional Leagues, which comprises teams from the different Departments of Bolivia: Santa Cruz, La Paz, Cochabamba, Chuquisaca, Oruro, Tarija Department, Beni Department Pando Department, Potosí

Carnaval San Francisco

The four Carnaval Cities with the greatest influence and presence in the San Francisco Carnaval are the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and Salvador as well as Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Havana, Cuba, and Oruro, Bolivia.

Cosapilla River

From its source in the Parinacota Province, the river flows north, is part of the Chile-Bolivia boundary and then flows in the Bolivian Province of Oruro.

Daniel J. Crowley

Crowley and a research expedition team from the University of California travelled to Oruro, Bolivia to study the major carnival there.

Franklin Herrera

Franklin Juan Herrera Gómez(born April 14, 1988 in Oruro) is a Bolivian football (soccer) midfielder.

Huara

The village is crossed by the Pan-American Highway and is the crossing point for the road that goes to Oruro in Bolivia.

Jach'a Ch'ankha

It is situated in the Oruro Department, Cercado Province, Surakachi Municipality, 16 km east of the town Oruro.

Jach'a Uma

Jach'a Uma (Aymara jach'a big, great, uma water, "big water", hispanicized spelling Jacha Uma, Jachcha Uma) is a Bolivian river in the Oruro Department, Cercado Province, Surakachi Municipality, north east of Oruro.

José Antonio de Mendoza, 3rd Marquis of Villagarcía

Also during his tenure, an Indigenous peoples revolt for freedom occurred at Oruro (1739) and another led by Juan Santos Atahualpa broke out in 1742 in Oxabamba.

José Luis Contaja

José Luis Contaja Vicente (born 2 June 1987 in Oruro) is a Bolivian football defender.

José Manuel de Goyeneche, 1st Count of Guaqui

Goyeneche's armies were left unprotected in their southern flank, which forced him to retreat towards Oruro.

La Patria

La Patria is a newspaper published in Oruro, Bolivia.

La Paz F.C.

Moreover, he is an articulate advocate for the proposition that Bolivia has the right—based on history, medical science, and fairness—to play international matches in its high altitude cities of La Paz, Potosi and Oruro.

Luzmila Carpio

In her early teens she moved to Oruro, and started expressing herself through her songs.

Mauro Blanco

A player from The Strongest he obtained a total number of nine caps for the Bolivia national football team in 1997, scoring two goals; both in a friendly match against Jamaica on 1997-03-23 at his debut in the Estadio Jesús Bermúdez in Oruro, Bolivia.

Oruro, Bolivia

At the time, it was named Real Villa de San Felipe de Austria after the Spanish monarch, Philip III.

Pisagua, Chile

Pisagua was founded in 1611 after an edict by the Viceroy of Peru which established a base from which it could be possible to stem the illegal traffic of gold and silver flowing from the important mines of Potosí and Oruro, in the Highlands of the "Audiencia of Charcas", to the British and Dutch pirates operating in the Corregimiento de Arica.

Return to Bolivia

Related as a road-movie, the camera follows a pair of Bolivians with their three children, traveling to the edge of the boundary between Jujuy Province and Tarija, and then go to a village in the highlands between Oruro and La Paz.

Son de los Diablos

Nicomedes Santa Cruz explains that, despite popular opinion, the Son de los Diablos has no links with African rituals or with the Andean Morenada, but rather it has a very slight similarity with the Diabladas of Oruro (Bolivia).

Virgin of Candelaria

She is widely venerated in South America and the Caribbean, where she is the patroness of Oruro and La Paz (Bolivia), Medellín (Colombia) (which was founded as Villa de Nuestra Señora de La Candelaria de Medellín) and Mayagüez (Puerto Rico) (which was founded as Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de Mayagüez).


Andean hairy armadillo

The Andean hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus nationi) is an armadillo present in Bolivia, in the region of the Puna, the departments of Oruro, La Paz, and Cochabamba (Gardner, 1993).

Jesús Elías

On 19 August 2006, he became director of the Oruro Symphony Orchestra, next to Augusto Guzmán, a prestigious director from Cochabamba.

Oruro Symphony Orchestra

On August 19, 2006, the orchestra was refunded by a merger of classical musicians from the Ensemble Ad Libitvm, the Camacho of Oruro and the Camerata Concertante of Cochabamba.

Politics of Bolivia

Bolivia is divided in nine departments (departamentos, singular - departamento); Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, Beni, La Paz, Oruro, Pando, Potosi, Santa Cruz, Tarija.

Water resources management in Bolivia

The lowest levels of coverage are found in the departments of Pando, Potosí, and Oruro.