ORURO, BOLIVIA
Oruro is a moderate sized city (a little over 200,000) on the Altiplano of Bolivia at over 12,000 feet above sea level. There are a few isolated very steep hills around the city, but the general area is flat.

Some scenes from the city center...







A type of trunked cactus (perhaps one of the native ones) in the center of town...





A park near the center (note the vegetation at 12,000 feet)...





In the park...oops...the banner is accidentally folded in a way so that instead of "Computación"...it looks like a very vulgar concept in Spanish...



Views of hills nearby...



Perhaps some scars from mining in one of the hills...



Larger view of that hill...



One of the hills had this chalk drawing...



Another hill (not sure what the tower being built on top is)...



While the main part of the city appeared to have a reasonable living standard, there were poor areas on the outskirts...like this area...





All of the above pictures on this page were taken in December 2012 by Brandt Maxwell.

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