Terminal Hotel, Oruro

The Terminal Hotel is the most convenient place for your stay in Oruro, Bolivia. The hotel has an on-site restaurant, cable TV and private b...

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Oruro Carnival Travel Advice and Tips

Plan your trip in advance; due the Carnival season demand it is almost impossible get accommodation upon arrival in Oruro city. Consider tha...

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Llamerada - Oruro Carnival Dance

The Llamerada dance is known in aymara as "qarwani". The dance has a festive religious sense performed by llama, alpaca and vicuna...

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La Diablada - Oruro Carnival Dance

The Diablada is a dance that originally comes from Oruro and is a material representation of a deep religious inspiration. This inspiratio...

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Tinkus - Oruro Carnival Dance

The Tinkus is the name of the ritual fights between the Alasaya and the Majasaya. The tinku dance represents the encounter of two elements...

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Kantu - Oruro Carnival Dance

The kantu dance is one of the most important dances in La Paz small towns, and is performed during the Oruro Carnival as well. The music a...

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La Morenada - Oruro Carnival Dance

The Morenada dance mocks white men, who are depicted leading imported African slaves. Some highly embroidered and colorful costumes imita...

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Negritos - Oruro Carnival Dance

The Negritos Bolivian Dance has its origin in the mutual admiration of the Aymaras and Negros, and the meeting of the cultures and history a...

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Kallawayas - Oruro Carnival Dance

The kallawayas dance expresses through a rich choreography and colorful dresses the representation of the "yatiri" (healer) with h...

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Waka Tokori - Oruro Carnival Dance

The dance of the Waka Tokoris (dancing bulls) satirizes bullfights and represents with irony the Spanish conquerors. The dance origin is Uma...

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Potolos - Oruro Carnival Dance

The Potolos dance has its origin in Potolo and Potobamba towns, the first one located in Chuquisaca and the other in Potosi. The dance is a ...

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Pujllay - Oruro Carnival Dance

The Pujllay is a historical dance, locally interpreted by the natives called Tarabucos. The word tarabuco comes from Tarka Phuku which means...

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Tarqueada - Oruro Carnival Dance

The Tarqueada is a dance mostly known in the aymara area of Bolivia. The dance is accompanied by the sound of the Tarqa a musical instrument...

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Kullawada - Oruro Carnival Dance

The Kullawada dance recalls the knitter ritual. It is a festive dance popular among the aymara knitters. Men and women participate directed ...

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Caporales - Oruro Carnival Dance

The Caporales is a typical Bolivian dance legacy of the Spanish. The dance is very popular especially in the carnivals and festivities such ...

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Doctorcitos - Oruro Carnival Dance

The doctorcitos dance is a satire of the lawyers of the colonial epoch and of their secretaries for the use of wayra Levas. The costumes for...

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