Murillo

Pedro Domingo Murillo is a province in the La Paz Department. It was created on January 8, 1838, with the name Cercado and on October 17, 1912, during the presidency of Eliodoro Villazón, its name was changed in honor of Pedro Domingo Murillo, protagonist of the revolution of June 16, 1809.
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  • Type: province of Bolivia with 1,670,000 residents
  • Description: province in the Bolivian department of La Paz
  • Also known as: “Murillo Province”, “Pedro Domingo Murillo Province”, “province de Pedro Domingo Murillo”, “მურილიოს პროვინცია”, and “პედრო დომინგო მურილიოს პროვინცია”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Salla Jipiña and Laram Quta.

Peak
is a 4,944-metre-high mountain in the in the .

Reservoir
Photo: Arquitectorodal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a lake in the in the of .

Peak
Q'ulini is a 4,968-metre-high mountain in the in the . is situated 6 km north of Murillo.

Murillo

Latitude
-16.3652° or 16° 21′ 55″ south
Longitude
-68.0525° or 68° 3′ 9″ west
Population
1,670,000
Elevation
3,000 metres (9,843 feet)
Open location code
57MHJWMX+W2
Geo­Names ID
3909793
Wiki­data ID
Q590873
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In Other Languages

From Aymara to Wu Chinese—“Murillo” goes by many names.
  • Aymara: “Pedro Domingo Murillo jisk’a suyu”
  • Basque: “Pedro Domingo Murillo probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “Пэдра Дамінга Мурыльё”
  • Catalan: “província de Pedro Domingo Murillo”
  • Catalan: “Província de Pedro Domingo Murillo”
  • Cebuano: “Provincia Murillo”
  • Chinese: “穆里约县”
  • Czech: “provincie Pedro Domingo Murillo”
  • Czech: “Provincie Pedro Domingo Murillo”
  • Dutch: “Pedro Domingo Murillo”
  • Estonian: “Murillo provints”
  • French: “Pedro Domingo Murillo”
  • French: “Province de Pedro Domingo Murillo”
  • Galician: “Provincia de Pedro Domingo Murillo”
  • Georgian: “პედრო-დომინგო-მურილიოს პროვინცია”
  • German: “Provinz Murillo”
  • Italian: “provincia di Pedro Domingo Murillo”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Pedro Domingo Murillo”
  • Japanese: “ペドロ・ドミンゴ・ムリリョ郡”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pedro Domingo Murillo Séng”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Provinsen Pedro Domingo Murillo”
  • Norwegian: “Provinsen Pedro Domingo Murillo”
  • Persian: “استان پدرو دومینگو موریلو”
  • Polish: “Pedro Domingo Murillo”
  • Portuguese: “Pedro Domingo Murillo”
  • Quechua: “Pedro Domingo Murillo pruwinsya”
  • Russian: “Педро Доминго Мурильо”
  • Scots: “Pedro Domingo Murillo Province”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pedro Domingo Murillo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Provincija Pedro Domingo Murillo”
  • Spanish: “Murillo”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Murillo”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Pedro Domingo Murillo”
  • Swedish: “Pedro Domingo Murillo”
  • Urdu: “پیڈرو ڈومنگو موریلو صوبہ”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pedro Domingo Murillo”
  • Welsh: “Talaith Pedro Domingo Murillo”
  • Wu Chinese: “佩德罗多明戈穆里略省”
  • Wu Chinese: “穆里约县”

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