Oruro

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Oruro (Hispanicized spelling) or Uru Uru is a city in Bolivia with a population of 264,683 (2012 calculation), 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. It is the capital of the Department of Oruro and the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oruro. Oruro has been subject to cycles of boom and bust owing to its dependence on the mining industry, notably tin, tungsten, silver and copper.

Little is known about the small Aymara towns of the post-Tiwanaku and pre-Inca period. Apparently, the Incas did not found important cities in the central Altiplano.

What is certain is that when the conquistadors arrived in the Oruro region, the native population was dispersed among hundreds of small settlements.

Before the Incas arrived in what is now the territory of Oruro, the area was successively inhabited by several regional peoples, among whom the Uru people stood out.

After the disappearance of the Tiwanaku Empire, the Aymaras belonging to the Aymara kingdoms subjugated the...

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