Oruro

E39084

city

Oruro is a city in western Bolivia best known for its rich mining history and its UNESCO-recognized Carnival, one of South America's most famous folkloric festivals.

Aliases (1)

Carnival of Oruro ×2

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	city →
capitalOf	Oruro Department →
climate	cold semi-arid climate →
continent	South America →
coordinateLocation	-17.9833,-67.1500 →
country	Bolivia →
countryCapital	Sucre (national constitutional capital of Bolivia) →
culturalHeritage	Andean folkloric dances → caporales dance → diablada dance → morenada dance →
demonym	orureño →
economy	commerce → mining → tourism →
elevationAboveSeaLevel	approximately 3700 m →
festival	Carnival of Oruro →
foundedBy	Manuel de Castro de Padilla →
hasPart	Cerro Pie de Gallo → San Felipe de Austria Church → San José mine → San Miguel Church → Socavón Sanctuary → Virgen del Socavón statue →
heritageDesignation	UNESCO Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity (for its Carnival) →
historicalActivity	silver mining → tin mining →
inception	1606 →
knownFor	Carnival of Oruro → mining history →
languageUsed	Aymara → Quechua → Spanish →
locatedIn	western Bolivia →
locatedInAdministrativeEntity	Oruro Department →
locatedInOrOn	Altiplano →
majorReligion	Roman Catholicism →
nearbyWaterBody	Poopó Lake → Uru Uru Lake →
originalName	Real Villa de San Felipe de Austria →
partOf	Bolivian Altiplano region →
population	over 250000 inhabitants →
religiousTradition	devotion to Virgen del Socavón →
roadConnection	Cochabamba → La Paz → Potosí →
timeZone	UTC−04:00 →
transport	Juan Mendoza Airport → Oruro railway junction →
UNESCORecognitionYear	2001 →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bolivia →	contains
Oruro ("Carnival of Oruro") →	festival
Oruro ("Carnival of Oruro") →	knownFor
Upper Peru →	mainCity
Altiplano plateau →	notableCity