page_title: Oruro, Bolivia
section_title: Culture and education
hierarchical_section_title: Oruro, Bolivia / Culture and education
caption_attribution_description: Diablada en el Carnaval de Oruro
context_page_description: 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.
  It is Bolivia's fifth-largest city by population, after Santa Cruz de la Sierra, El Alto, La Paz, and Cochabamba. It is the capital of the Department of Oruro and the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oruro. Oruro has been subject to cycles of boom and bust owing to its dependence on the mining industry, notably tin, tungsten, silver and copper.
context_section_description: Despite its economic decline, the city attracts numerous tourists to its Carnaval de Oruro, considered one of the great folkloric events in South America for its masked "diablada" and Anata.
  The Oruro Symphony Orchestra is based in the city. Aymara painter and printmaker Alejandro Mario Yllanes (1913–1960) was born here.
  The Universidad Técnica de Oruro, noted for its engineering school, is located in Oruro.
caption: Carnaval de Oruro, Bolivia, 2007
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