Oruro
Americannoun
noun
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Supporters of former socialist president Evo Morales, who was in power from 2006 to 2019, arrived in La Paz on Monday after marching for seven days from Oruro, about 180 kilometers south of the capital.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
Australia and Chile are the world's biggest lithium producers, but Bolivia has huge reserves in the Potosi and Oruro salt flats.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2023
In the department of Oruro, dairy farmer Demetrio Martínez said his family business lost two cows this year from drought after losing a total of six in 2019 and 2020.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2021
Referring to the Carnaval de Oruro in Bolivia, she said: “Not everybody has a chance to go over there to experience the energy and the folklore. So we bring that here.”
From New York Times ● May 21, 2019
During the summer months they overran the The South American struggle country between La Paz and Oruro.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin
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