Oruro
Oruro or Uru Uru is a city in Bolivia with a population of 264,683, about halfway between La Paz and Sucre in the Altiplano, approximately 3,709 meters above sea level.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 265,000 residents
- Description: city of Bolivia
- Also known as: “Ciudad Oruro” and “Gruro”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Estadio Jesús Bermúdez.
Estadio Jesús Bermúdez
Stadium
Photo: Nightsmokingskull, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Estadio Jesús Bermúdez is a multi-purpose stadium in Oruro, Bolivia. It is currently used mostly for football matches and athletics. The stadium has a capacity of 33,000 people, and is the home stadium of GV San José of the Bolivian Primera División and Club San José.It is located at 3,715 meters above sea level.
Oruro
- Categories: municipality of Bolivia, big city, and locality
- Location: Oruro, Altiplano, Bolivia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-17.9698° or 17° 58′ 11″ southLongitude
-67.1148° or 67° 6′ 53″ westPopulation
265,000Elevation
3,885 metres (12,746 feet)Inception
November 1st, 1606IATA airport code
ORUUnited Nations Location Code
BO ORUOpen location code
57JJ2VJP+33OpenStreetMap ID
node 319780564OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Waray—“Oruro” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Oruro”
- Arabic: “أرورو”
- Arabic: “أورورو”
- Arabic: “اورورو”
- Armenian: “Օրուրո”
- Asturian: “Oruro”
- Aymara: “Ururu”
- Azerbaijani: “Oruro”
- Basque: “Oruro”
- Belarusian: “Арура”
- Bengali: “ক্রুরো”
- Catalan: “Oruro”
- Cebuano: “Oruro”
- Chinese: “奥鲁罗”
- Czech: “Oruro”
- Danish: “Oruro”
- Dutch: “Oruro”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اورورو”
- Esperanto: “Oruro”
- Esperanto: “Uruio”
- Esperanto: “Ururio”
- Estonian: “Oruro”
- Finnish: “Oruro”
- French: “Oruro”
- Galician: “Oruro”
- Georgian: “ორურო”
- German: “Oruro”
- Greek: “Ορούρο”
- Gujarati: “ઓરૂરો”
- Hebrew: “אורורו”
- Hindi: “ओरुरो”
- Hungarian: “Oruro”
- Ido: “Oruro”
- Indonesian: “Oruro”
- Irish: “Oruro”
- Italian: “Oruro”
- Japanese: “オルーロ”
- Japanese: “オルロ”
- Kannada: “ಒರೊರೊ”
- Korean: “오루로”
- Ladino: “Oruro”
- Latvian: “Oruro”
- Lithuanian: “Oruras”
- Lithuanian: “Orūras”
- Lithuanian: “Oruro”
- Macedonian: “Оруро”
- Malay: “Oruro”
- Marathi: “ओरुरो”
- Nauru: “Oruro”
- Northern Frisian: “Oruro”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oruro”
- Norwegian: “Oruro”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Oruro”
- Persian: “اورورو”
- Polish: “Oruro”
- Portuguese: “Oruro”
- Quechua: “Oruro”
- Quechua: “Uru Uru”
- Quechua: “Uru-Uru”
- Quechua: “Ururu”
- Romanian: “Oruro”
- Russian: “Оруро”
- Scots: “Oruro, Bolivie”
- Scots: “Oruro”
- Serbian: “Оруро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oruro”
- Silesian: “Oruro”
- Sinhala: “ඔරුරෝ, බොලිවියාව”
- Sinhala: “ඔරුරෝ”
- Slovak: “Oruro”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Oruro”
- Spanish: “Oruro”
- Swedish: “Oruro”
- Tamil: “ஒருரோ”
- Tatar: “Оруро”
- Telugu: “వోరురో”
- Thai: “โอรูโร”
- Turkish: “Oruro, Bolivya”
- Turkish: “Oruro”
- Ukrainian: “Оруро”
- Ukrainian: “Уруру”
- Urdu: “اورورو، بولیویا”
- Venetian: “Oruro”
- Vietnamese: “Oruro, Bolivia”
- Volapük: “Oruro”
- Waray (Philippines): “Oruro”
- “Oruro”
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