Oruro Department

• Name — Oruro • Native Name — Departamento de Oruro (Spanish) Ururu jach'a suyu (Aymara) • Type — Department • Shield Size — 70px • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Type1 — Capital • Subdivision Name1 — Oruro • Subdivision Type2 — Provinces • Subdivision Name2 — 16 • Governing Body — Departmental Legislative Assembly of Oruro • Leader Party — MAS-IPSP • Leader Title — Governor • Leader Name — Johnny Franklin Vedia • Area Total Km2 — 53588 • Population As Of — 2024 census • Population Total — 570,194 • Population Density Km2 — auto • Time Zone — BOT • Utc Offset — -4 • Custom Label Sec1 — ISO 3166-2 • Custom Data Sec1 — BO-O • Custom Label1 Sec1 — Languages • Custom Data1 Sec1 — Spanish, Quechua, Aymara • Custom Label2 Sec1 — HDI (2019) • Custom Data2 Sec1 — 0.727 high · 4th of 9 • Custom Label3 Sec1 — GDP (2023) • Custom Data3 Sec1 — constant Dollar of 2015 • Custom Label4 Sec1 — - Total • Custom Data4 Sec1 — US$ 1.6 billion Int$ 3.7 billion (PPP) • Custom Label5 Sec1 — - Per capita • Custom Data5 Sec1 — US$ 2,700 Int$ 6,400 (PPP)

The department is divided into 16 provinces which are further subdivided into municipalities and cantons. • Province — Map # — Area (km 2) — 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).

The chief executive officer of Bolivian 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, Johnny Franklin Vedia Rodríguez of the Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples, was elected on 7 March 2021. • Took office — Office expired — Prefect/Governor — Party — Notes • 22 Jan 2006 — 30 May 2010 — Alberto Luís Aguilar Calle — MAS-IPSP — First elected prefect. Elected in Bolivian general election, December 2005 • 30 May 2010 — 31 May 2015 — Santos Javier Tito Véliz — MAS-IPSP — Elected in the first round of the regional election on 4 April 2010; first governor. • 31 May 2015 — 19 Nov 2019 — Víctor Hugo Vásquez Mamani — MAS-IPSP — Elected in the first round of the regional election on 29 March 2015. • 19 Nov 2019 — 31 May 2020 — Zenón Pizarro Garisto (interim) — MAS-IPSP • 31 May 2020 — 3 May 2021 — Edson Milton Oczachoque Gerónimo (interim) — MAS-IPSP • 3 May 2021 — Johnny Franklin Vedia Rodríguez — MAS-IPSP — Elected in the first round of the regional election on 7 March 2021.

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. After the regional election on 7 March 2021, the legislature met for its first session of 3 May 2021 and elected a new executive committee consisting of Edwin Fuentes Camacho as president and Delia Gongora Veliz as vice-president.

• Illustration — Sanctuary of the Virgin of Socavon, Carnival of Oruro 2007.

The languages spoken in the department are mainly Spanish, Quechua and Aymara. The following table shows the number of those belonging to the recognised group of speakers. • 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

• Evo Morales, Bolivian president from 2006 to 2019, was born in the village of Isallawi near Orinoca. • Zulma Yugar, a Bolivian politician and folk singer.

• Sajama National Park • Parinacota Volcano • Sajama Lines • Poopó Lake • Lake Uru Uru • Paria, first Spanish settlement in Bolivia, former Inca city.