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Oruro

Boom town, Bolivia, founded 1606.

About Oruro

City of Bolivia.1

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People

Worked atAntenor PatinoAntenor Patino was born in Oruro in 1896.2Worked hereDomitila Barrios de ChungaraTortured in 1967, she told her story in Let Me Speak!3

Trade routes

Shipped throughBolivian tin from Oruro to Antofagasta (railway)The railway from the Pacific coast reached Oruro in 1892 and cut the cost of exporting tin.4

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q35246 (Oruro)
  2. Article on Antenor Patino (Tello Diaz), PDF 64024698007 Redalyc (journal article)
  3. Barrios de Chungara, Domitila (1937-) Encyclopedia.com (reprinting a publisher's reference work)
  4. Correa Vera L., Del poder a los tratados: desarrollo y ferrocarriles en Bolivia, 1870-1904 Historia 46(2) (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, via Redalyc)

Pictures on this page: Domitila Barrios de Chungara Portrait.jpg, Fduriez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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