Oruro Department


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

Provinces of Oruro

The department is divided into 16 provinces which are further subdivided into municipalities and cantons.
ProvinceMap #Area Population
Capital
Carangas10 5,47211,041Corque
Cercado2 5,766309,277Oruro
Eduardo Avaroa5 4,01533,248Challapata
Ladislao Cabrera12 8,81814,678Salinas de Garci Mendoza
Litoral13 2,89410,409Huachacalla
Nor Carangas8 8705,502Huayllamarca
Pantaleón Dalence3 1,21029,497Huanuni
Poopó4 3,06116,775Poopó
Puerto de Mejillones16 7852,076La Rivera
Sabaya15 5,88510,924Sabaya
Sajama14 5,7909,390Curahuara de Carangas
San Pedro de Totora9 1,4875,531Totora
Saucarí7 1,67110,149Toledo
Sebastian Pagador6 1,97213,153Santiago de Huari
Sud Carangas11 3,5367,231Santiago de Andamarca
Tomás Barrón1 3565,267Eucaliptus

Note: Eduardo Abaroa Province is both north of and south of Sebastián Pagador Province.

Government

Executive offices

The chief executive officer of Bolivian departments 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 officeOffice expiredPrefect/'GovernorPartyNotes'
22 Jan 200630 May 2010Alberto Luís Aguilar CalleMAS-IPSPFirst elected prefect. Elected in Bolivian general election, December 2005
30 May 201031 May 2015Santos Javier Tito VélizMAS-IPSPElected in the first round of the regional election on 4 April 2010; first governor.
31 May 201519 Nov 2019Víctor Hugo Vásquez MamaniMAS-IPSPElected in the first round of the regional election on 29 March 2015.
19 Nov 201931 May 2020Zenón Pizarro Garisto MAS-IPSP
31 May 20203 May 2021Edson Milton Oczachoque Gerónimo MAS-IPSP
3 May 2021Johnny Franklin Vedia RodríguezMAS-IPSPElected in the first round of the regional election on 7 March 2021.

Legislature

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.

Demographics

Languages

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.
LanguageDepartmentBolivia
Quechua134,2892,281,198
Aymara127,0861,525,321
Guaraní38362,575
Another native1,94349,432
Spanish342,3326,821,626
Foreign6,878250,754
Only native30,745960,491
Native and Spanish188,9632,739,407
Spanish and foreign153,4394,115,751

Notable people