Oropeza is a

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in the

Chuquisaca Department Chuquisaca (); ; ; ) is a department of Bolivia located in the center south. It borders on the departments of Cochabamba, Tarija, Potosí, and Santa Cruz. The departmental capital is Sucre, which is also the constitutional capital of Bolivia. ...

Bolivia Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...

. Its seat is

Sucre Sucre (; ) is the ''de jure'' capital city of Bolivia, the capital of the Chuquisaca Department and the sixth most populous city in Bolivia. Located in the south-central part of the country, Sucre lies at an elevation of . This relatively high ...

which is also the constitutional capital of Bolivia and the capital of the Chuquisaca Department.

Geography

Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below:Bolivian IGM map 1:50,0000 Poroma 6538-III

Subdivision

The province is divided into three

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which are further subdivided into

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The people

The people are predominantly

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citizens of

Quechuan Quechua (, ), also called (, 'people's language') in Southern Quechua, is an indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes. Derived from a common ancestral " Proto-Quechua" l ...

descent. Ref.: obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo

Languages

The languages spoken in the province are mainly Spanish and Quechua. Ref.: obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo

Places of interest

Incamachay arte Ruprestre Oropeza Chuquisaca Bolivia

The archaeological sites of Inka Mach'ay and Puma Mach'ay are situated within the province. Inka Mach'ay was declared a National Monument in 1958.

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