La Oroya
La Oroya is a city on the River Mantaro and capital of the Yauli Province, located in the Department of Junin in central Peru. It is situated on the eastern watershed of the Andes at an altitude of 3,745 m, some 176 km east-north-east of the national capital, Lima.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Town with 11,400 residents
- Description: capital city of Yauli, Junín, Peru
- Also known as: “Oroya”
La Oroya
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: La Oroya District, Yauli Province, Junín Region, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-11.52008° or 11° 31′ 12″ south
Longitude
-75.9014° or 75° 54′ 5″ west
Population
11,400
Elevation
3,765 metres (12,352 feet)
UN/LOCODE
PE LOA
Open location code
57W6F3HX+XC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“La Oroya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لا أورويا”
- Asturian: “La Oroya”
- Aymara: “Uruya”
- Cebuano: “La Oroya (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “La Oroya”
- Chinese: “拉奥罗亚”
- Chinese: “拉奧羅亞”
- Czech: “La Oroya”
- Dutch: “La Oroya”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لا اورويا”
- Esperanto: “La Oroya”
- French: “La Oroya”
- German: “La Oroya”
- Indonesian: “La Oroya”
- Italian: “La Oroya”
- Japanese: “ラ・オロヤ”
- Lithuanian: “La Oroja”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “La Oroya”
- Norwegian: “La Oroya”
- Persian: “لا اوریا”
- Polish: “La Oroya”
- Portuguese: “La Oroya”
- Quechua: “Uruya llaqta”
- Russian: “Ла-Оройа”
- Russian: “Ороя”
- Spanish: “La Oroya”
- Swedish: “La Oroya”
- Ukrainian: “Ла-Ороя”
- Waray (Philippines): “La Oroya”
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Places to explore: El Porvenir and Chulec.
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Highlights: Complejo Deportivo Yauli La Oroya and Plaza Libertad - Oroya Antigua.
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