Cercado

Cercado is a province in the northeastern parts of the department of . 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.
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  • Type: province of Bolivia with 347,000 residents
  • Description: province in Oruro, Bolivia
  • Also known as: “Cercado (Uru-Uru) pruwinsya”, “Cercado Province”, “Cercado Province (Oruro)”, “Province de Cerado”, and “Uru-Uru pruwinsya”

Cercado

Latitude
-17.8372° or 17° 50′ 14″ south
Longitude
-67.1546° or 67° 9′ 16″ west
Population
347,000
Elevation
3,796 metres (12,454 feet)
Open location code
57JJ5R7W+45
Geo­Names ID
3921629
Wiki­data ID
Q590859
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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: “塞尔卡多县”
  • Dutch: “Cercado”
  • French: “Cercado”
  • 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: “Uru Uru pruwinsya”
  • Russian: “Серкадо”
  • Scots: “Cercado Province, Oruro”
  • Scots: “Cercado Province”
  • Spanish: “Cercado”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Cercado (Oruro)”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Cercado”
  • Swedish: “Cercado”
  • Urdu: “سرکادو صوبہ (اورورو)”
  • Urdu: “سرکادو صوبہ”
  • 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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