Oruro Center Touristic
Center Tourist in Oruro
- Casa de la Cultura
- Miner Ethnographic Museum
- Lighthouse of Conchupata
- Mineshaft Sanctuary
- San Miguel de la Ranchería Church
- Santo Domingo Church
- La Portada del Beaterío
- Yarvicoya Church
- Other Places of Interest
Casa de la Cultura
This building belonged to Simón I. Patiño known as the tin baron; it has a gallery of colonial art and French style furniture.
Miner Ethnographic Museum
New museum located under the hill Pie de Gallo, "Santuario del Socavón" or Mineshaft Sanctuary, where you can appreciate the work inside a silver mine, with a perfect atmosphere of the colonial time.
Lighthouse of Conchupata
One can enjoy a panoramic view of the city of Oruro from the national monument denominated Lighthouse of Conchupata, where the current homeland emblem was hoisted for the first time.
Mineshaft Sanctuary
It is a religious temple of special devotion for the inhabitants of Oruro, where the Candlemas's Virgin is worshipped. She is the local patron of the miners and receives the name of Virgin of the Mineshaft. It is an extraordinary image, painted on some clay bricks that were probably part of an interior wall during the end of the fifteenth century. In her honor the splendid Carnival Folkloric Entrance is carried out. The Sanctuary is assisted at the moment by the religious order the Servants of María.
San Miguel de la Ranchería Church
It is one of the oldest churches in the city that keeps paintings and sculptures of enormous sacred value. One of these pieces, which has the image of Saint Michael Archangel, is attributed to Don Francisco de Medrano who would have financed its construction
Santo Domingo Church
It was built in 1602 and since that time it was quite modified. Its current plant corresponds to the eighteenth century and it was remodeled at the beginning of the twenieth century. Originally members of the Orden de Predicadores governed it, order to which Brother Bartolomé de las Casas belonged. He was called "apostle of the Indians" during the conquest days.
La Portada del Beaterío
This portal, sculpted in stone, is a pilgrimage center in devotion to its founder, Sister Nazaria March, beatified in 1993. It has a convent where a small museum exists with its founder's belongings.
Yarvicoya Church
The Yarvicoya Church is another remarkable example of the halfbreed Baroque art. It is located a few kilometers from Oruro. The church was declared national monument, it one vessel with victorious arch, front, full and choir, annexed tower and cover carved entirely of stone. It was built in the sixteenth century and it has a colored altarpiece with gold, where figures of snakes are mimicked. In that place remains of mining exploitation from the colonial time still exist.
Other Places of Interest
The Zoological Park, with fauna specimens of the region (llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, armadillos, etc.); the Mineralogical Museum, with 7,600 samples of minerals that are exploited in Bolivia and the National Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, with one of the biggest collections in the evolution of masks, percussion and wind instruments of the Andes, including samples dedicated especially to the Chipaya Culture.
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