Cercado
Cercado is a province in the northeastern parts of the Bolivian department of Oruro. Its capital is Oruro. The hamlet of Paria, established in 1535, was the first Spanish settlement in Bolivia and previously had been a regional capital of the Inca Empire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: province of Bolivia with 310,000 residents
- Description: province in Oruro, Bolivia
- Also known as: “Cercado Province”
Cercado
- Location: Oruro, Altiplano, Bolivia, South America
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Wu Chinese—“Cercado” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cercado probintzia (Oruro)”
- Basque: “Cercado probintzia”
- Catalan: “Cercado”
- Cebuano: “Provincia Cercado (lalawigan sa Departamento de Oruro)”
- Cebuano: “Provincia Cercado”
- Chinese: “Cercado Séng”
- Chinese: “塞尔卡多县”
- Dutch: “Cercado”
- French: “Cercado”
- French: “Province de Cerado”
- French: “Province de Cercado”
- Galician: “Provincia de Cercado”
- Georgian: “სერკადოს პროვინცია”
- German: “Provinz Cercado”
- Italian: “provincia di Cercado”
- Italian: “Provincia di Cercado”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cercado Séng”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Provinsen Cercado”
- Norwegian: “Provinsen Cercado”
- Persian: “استان سرکادو”
- Portuguese: “Cercado”
- Quechua: “Cercado (Uru-Uru) pruwinsya”
- Quechua: “Uru Uru pruwinsya”
- Quechua: “Uru-Uru pruwinsya”
- Russian: “Серкадо”
- Scots: “Cercado Province, Oruro”
- Scots: “Cercado Province”
- Spanish: “Cercado”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Cercado”
- Swedish: “Cercado”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cercado, Oruro”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cercado”
- Wu Chinese: “塞尔卡多县（奥鲁罗省）”
- Wu Chinese: “塞尔卡多省 (奥鲁罗省)”
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