Oruro Department

Department of Oruro

Santuario de la Virgen del Socavón, Carnaval de Oruro, 2007

Flag

Coat of arms

Location within Bolivia

Country

Bolivia

Capital

Oruro

Provinces

Government

• Governor

Santos Tito (MAS-IPSP)

Area

• Total

53,588 km² (20,690 sq mi)

Population (2012 census)

• Total

494,178

• Density

9.2/km² (24/sq mi)

Time zone

BOT (UTC-4)

ISO 3166-2

BO-O

Languages

Spanish, Quechua, Aymara

Website

.bo.gob.orurowww

Oruro is a department in Bolivia, with an area of 53,588 km². Its capital is the city of Oruro. According to the 2012 census, the Oruro department had a population of 494,178.

Provinces of Oruro 1
Government 2
Languages 3
Notable people 4
Places of interest 5
See also 6
References 7
External links 8

Provinces of Oruro

The department is divided into 16 provinces which are further subdivided into municipalities and cantons.

Province	Map #	Area (km²)	Population (2012 census)	Capital
Carangas	10	5,472	11,041	Corque
Cercado	2	5,766	309,277	Oruro
Eduardo Avaroa	5	4,015	33,248	Challapata
Ladislao Cabrera	12	8,818	14,678	Salinas de Garci Mendoza
Litoral	13	2,894	10,409	Huachacalla
Nor Carangas	8	870	5,502	Huayllamarca
Pantaleón Dalence	3	1,210	29,497	Huanuni
Poopó	4	3,061	16,775	Poopó
Puerto de Mejillones	16	785	2,076	La Rivera
Sabaya	15	5,885	10,924	Sabaya
Sajama	14	5,790	9,390	Curahuara de Carangas
San Pedro de Totora	9	1,487	5,531	Totora
Saucarí	7	1,671	10,149	Toledo
Sebastian Pagador	6	1,972	13,153	Santiago de Huari
Sud Carangas	11	3,536	7,231	Santiago de Andamarca
Tomás Barrón	1	356	5,267	Eucaliptus

Note: Eduardo Abaroa Province (#5) is both north of and south of Sebastián Pagador Province (#6).

Government

The chief executive office of Bolivia departments (since May 2010) is the governor; until then, the office was called the prefect, and until 2006 the prefect was appointed by the President of Bolivia. The current governor, Santos Tito of the Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples, was elected on 4 April 2010.

The chief legislative body of the department is the Departmental Legislative Assembly, a body also first elected on 4 April 2010. It consists of 33 members: 16 elected by each of the department's provinces; 16 elected based on proportional representation; and minority indigenous representative selected by the Uru-Chipaya people.

Gubernatorial Candidate		Party	Votes for Governor	Percentage	Assembly Members by Territory	Votes for Assembly by Population	Percentage	Assembly Members by Population	Total Assembly Members
	Santos Tito	Movement for Socialism	107.576	59,6%	15	83.220	56,1%	10	25
	Iver Pereira Vásquez	Without Fear Movement	53.111	29,4	1	47.319	31,9%	5	6
		National Unity Front	13.933	7,7%	0	12.277	8,3%	1	1
	Guillermo Zolá Eugenio	Nationalist Revolutionary Movement	5.800	3,2%	0	5.612	3,8%	0	0
	Indigenous Representatives		Elected through usos y costumbres						1
		Valid votes	180.420	81,5%		148.428	67,1%
		Blank votes	28.055	12,7		62.222	30,2%
		Null votes	12.939	5,8%		10.706	4,8%
		Total votes	221.414	87,5% of registered voters	16	221.356	87,4% of registered voters	16	33
Source: Corte Nacional Electoral, Acto de Computo Nacional, Boletín 22: Explicación asignación de escaños departamentales

Languages

The languages spoken in the department are mainly Spanish, Quechua and Aymara. The following table shows the number of those belonging to the recognized group of speakers.^[1]

Language	Department	Bolivia
Quechua	134,289	2,281,198
Aymara	127,086	1,525,321
Guaraní	383	62,575
Another native	1,943	49,432
Spanish	342,332	6,821,626
Foreign	6,878	250,754
Only native	30,745	960,491
Native and Spanish	188,963	2,739,407
Spanish and foreign	153,439	4,115,751

Notable people

Evo Morales who has been the Bolivian president since 2006 was born in the little village of Isallawi near Orinoca.

Places of interest

References

^ obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo (Spanish)

External links

Oruro Travel Guide
Weather in Oruro
Carnaval 2009 folklore
Technical University of Oruro
Oruro News
Feria Exposición
Full information of Oruro Department

Oruro Department

Capital: Oruro

Provinces	Atahuallpa Carangas Cercado Eduardo Avaroa Ladislao Cabrera Litoral Puerto de Mejillones Nor Carangas Pantaléon Dalence Province Poopó Sajama San Pedro de Totora Saucarí Sebastián Pagador Sud Carangas Tomas Barrón

Municipalities (and seats)	Andamarca (Andamarca) Antequera (Antequera) Belén de Andamarca (Belén de Andamarca) Caracollo (Caracollo) Carangas (Carangas) Challapata (Challapata) Chipaya (Chipaya) Choquecota (Choquecota) Coipasa (Coipasa) Corque (Corque) Cruz de Machacamarca (Machacamarca) Curahuara de Carangas (Curahuara de Carangas) El Choro (El Choro) Escara (Escara) Esmeralda (Esmeralda) Eucaliptus (Eucaliptus) Huachacalla (Huachacalla) Huayllamarca (Huayllamarca) La Rivera (La Rivera) Machacamarca (Machacamarca) Oruro (Oruro) Pampa Aullagas (Pampa Aullagas) Pazña (Pazña) Sabaya (Sabaya) Salinas de Garci Mendoza (Salinas de Garci Mendoza) Santiago de Huari (Santiago de Huari) Santuario de Quillacas (Santuario de Quillacas) Todos Santos (Todos Santos) Toledo (Toledo) Totora (Totora) Turco (Turco) Huanuni (Huanuni) Poopó (Poopó) Yunguyo del Litoral (Yunguyo)

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