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.
- City with about 297,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 3,740 metres (12,250 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code ORU
- Description: city of Bolivia
- Also known as“Ciudad Oruro”“Gruro”
- Established: November 1, 1606
Places of Interest
Highlights include Estadio Jesús Bermúdez.
Estadio Jesús Bermúdez
Stadium
The Estadio Jesús Bermúdez is a multi-purpose stadium in Oruro, Bolivia.
Oruro
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Latitude
-17.9698° or 17° 58′ 11″ south
Longitude
-67.1148° or 67° 6′ 53″ west
UN/LOCODE
BO ORU
Open location code
57JJ2VJP+33
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Waray—“Oruro” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Oruro”
- Amharic: “ኦሩሮ”
- Arabic: “أرورو”
- Arabic: “أورورو”
- Armenian: “Օրուրո”
- Asturian: “Oruro”
- Aymara: “Ururu”
- Azerbaijani: “Oruro”
- Basque: “Oruro”
- Belarusian: “Арура”
- Bengali: “ওরুরো”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Oruro”
- Hebrew: “אורורו”
- Hindi: “ओरुरो”
- Hungarian: “Oruro”
- Ido: “Oruro”
- Indonesian: “Oruro”
- Irish: “Oruro”
- Italian: “Oruro”
- Japanese: “オルーロ”
- Japanese: “オルーロ市”
- Japanese: “オルロ”
- Japanese: “オルロ市”
- Javanese: “Oruro”
- Kannada: “ಒರೊರೊ”
- Kazakh: “Оруро”
- Kirghiz: “Оруро”
- Korean: “오루로”
- Ladino: “Oruro”
- Latvian: “Oruro”
- Lithuanian: “Orūras”
- Lithuanian: “Oruro”
- Macedonian: “Оруро”
- Malagasy: “Oruro”
- Malay: “Oruro”
- Marathi: “ओरुरो”
- Nauru: “Oruro”
- Northern Frisian: “Oruro”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oruro”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oruro”
- Norwegian: “Oruro”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Oruro”
- Oromo: “Oruro”
- Panjabi: “ਓਰੁਰੋ”
- Persian: “اورورو”
- Polish: “Oruro”
- Portuguese: “Oruro”
- Pushto: “اورورو”
- Quechua: “Oruro”
- 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”
- Somali: “Oruro”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Oruro”
- Spanish: “Oruro”
- Swahili: “Oruro”
- Swedish: “Oruro”
- Tajik: “Оруро”
- Tamil: “ஒருரோ”
- Tatar: “Оруро”
- Telugu: “వోరురో”
- Thai: “โอรูโร”
- Turkish: “Oruro”
- Ukrainian: “Оруро”
- Ukrainian: “Уруру”
- Urdu: “اورورو، بولیویا”
- Uzbek: “Oruro”
- Venetian: “Oruro”
- Vietnamese: “Oruro, Bolivia”
- Volapük: “Oruro”
- Waray (Philippines): “Oruro”
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