Oruro, situated approx.3710 meters above sea level between La Paz and Potosi is one of Bolivia's main mining districts. In the background you see the San Jose Mine

Oruro's affluence always depended on the mining business. This fact is reflecting in various monuments and artworks with reference to mining, spread over the city...

...like this oversized miners-helmet

Traditionally dressed women in Oruro

One of the various churches in Oruro

Examining several kinds of minerals from Oruro, Machacamarca und Viloco

...like this nice lot of Ludlamite from Machacamarca

Communal room of the miners coop

Entrance to the communal room of the miners cooperative