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The city of Oruro
was founded on November
1st, 1606 by Don Manuel
Castro de Padilla. The
city was formally born
as Real Villa de Don
Felipe de Austria, in
honor of then Spanish
monarch Felipe III.
Oruro owes its existence
to the discovery in
the early 1605 of rich
silver-concentrated
minerals in the Urus
region, where the city
derives its name from.
During the 17th century,
Oruro became the largest
city in the Alto Peru
region.
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