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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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 Department, Peru, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-11.52139° or 11° 31′ 17″ southLongitude
-75.89988° or 75° 53′ 60″ westPopulation
11,400Elevation
3,765 metres (12,352 feet)United Nations Location Code
PE LOAOpen location code
57W6F4H2+C2OpenStreetMap ID
node 268130103OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover La Oroya from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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”
- Quechua: “Uruya”
- Russian: “Ла-Оройа”
- Russian: “Ороя”
- Spanish: “La Oroya”
- Swedish: “La Oroya”
- Ukrainian: “Ла-Ороя”
- Waray (Philippines): “La Oroya”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “La Oroya”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as El Porvenir and Chulec.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Complejo Deportivo Yauli La Oroya and Plaza Libertad - Oroya Antigua.
Peru: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Lima, Machu Picchu, Cuzco, and Arequipa.
Curious Places to Discover
Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.
About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “La Oroya”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.