Poopó Municipality is the first
municipal section of the
Poopó Province in the
Oruro Department
Oruro (; Quechua: ''Uru Uru''; Aymara: ''Ururu'') 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
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. Its capital is Poopó.
Geography
The municipality lies east of the
Desaguadero River where it connects
Uru Uru Lake and
Poopó Lake Poopó may refer to:
* Poopó Lake, Oruro, Bolivia
* Poopó Province, Oruro, Bolivia
* Poopó Municipality, Oruro, Bolivia
* Poopó Canton Poopó may refer to:
* Poopó Lake, Oruro, Bolivia
* Poopó Province, Oruro, Bolivia
* Poopó Municipalit ...
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Some of the highest mountains of the municipality are listed below:
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Subdivision
The municipality is divided into three cantons.
*Coripata Canton
*Poopó Canton
*Venta y Media Canton
Languages
The languages spoken in the Poopó Municipality are mainly Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
** Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Ca ...
, Quechua
Quechua may refer to:
*Quechua people, several indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru
*Quechuan languages, a Native South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language
**So ...
and Aymara .
References
obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo
External links
Municipalities of Oruro Department
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