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By Law issued on September 5, 1826 during the government of the Grand Marshal of Ayacucho. Oruro

The city of Oruro, located in the heart of Bolivia, at 3700 meters above sea level, at the time of the Colony was already famous for its rich and abundant tin mines, which made it famous throughout the world;



Currently obsessed, among other elements, the proud title of Folkloric Capital of Bolivia, fully justified if one takes into account that it takes place a folkloric event of singular importance for its pagan and devout character and that still continues to attract the attention of its own and strangers and especially researchers of renowned Folklore because simultaneously ancient costumbristas rituals are performed and there is a very deep and widespread devotion to the miraculous image of the Virgin of the Socavón, embodying and representing the Devil himself, in whose honor and honor the fabulous Carnival, world known and weighted.



TOURIST ATTRACTIONS



The Chipayas.- The members of the Uru-Chipaya Culture, are more timid than the Urus, their dress is simple; the Pututu the typical suits, the Ajsu (feminine) and the qhawa (masculine) of rigor in all important meeting, consists a long and unique woolen nightgown with belt of the same raw material that the women weave.

In each home the elders instruct their descendants in the techniques of braiding, weaving and hunting, and in the use of the language "Paquin" to avoid the influence of Castilian, Aymara or Quechua. They feed preferentially on the flesh of the '' Tujo '', a typical animal that lives in burrows piercing the sandy soil. They are dedicated to raising pigs. Equally to preserve intact its blood and its lineage they do not mix with any other culture, and tend to disappear like the "Urus". They have an ancestry of more than 2,500 years BC They belong to the so-called Wankarani Culture. They populate in the area surrounding Lake Poopo / Atahuallpa province north of Lake Coipasa, 188 km from the City of Oruro.

 

THE CARNIVAL OF ORURO





Considered a folkloric event, based on myth and legend at times, reaching the limit of fantasy, and other times born from history itself, precisely to honor the Virgin of La Candelaria through the pilgrimage of dancers in a wonderful choreography that represents the whole being of a people that knew how to rescue their ancestral, mythological and telluric roots to amalgamate them with the history of religion.

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