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Although a few buildings dating from Oruro's heyday still survive, the city is dominated by
the unappealing, functional architecture you'd expect to find in a mining town at the wrong
end of half a century of decline. Architecture aside, the
Museo Antropológico Eduardo
López Rivas
is one of Bolivia's better provincial museums. The
Santuario del Socavón
,
focus of the Carnaval, which sits on top of an abandoned mineshaft now occupied by the
Museo Etnográfico Minero
, is also worth checking out.
