Toro Toro is a town in the Charcas Province

Charcas Province

Charcas is a province in the northern parts of the Bolivian Potosí Department. Its capital is San Pedro de Buena Vista .-Location:...

, Potosí Department

Potosí Department

Potosí Department is a department in southwestern Bolivia. It comprises 118,218 km² with 709,013 inhabitants . The capital is the city of Potosí....

, Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

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Torotoro was founded in the late colonial period by mestizo

Mestizo

Mestizo is a term traditionally used in Latin America, Philippines and Spain for people of mixed European and Native American heritage or descent...

 migrants from Cochabamba

Cochabamba

Cochabamba is a city in central Bolivia, located in a valley bearing the same name in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and is the fourth largest city in Bolivia with an urban population of 608,276 and a metropolitan population of more than 1,000,000 people...

 and legally confirmed as a municipality (municipio

Municipio

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) on 21 November 1883. The municipality has an area of 1,169 km² and a population of 10,535 (2001).

Torotoro lies at an altitude of 2,676 m. It can only be reached by gravel roads from Estancia Sucusuma at the Río Caine

Caine River

Caine is the name of a river in the eastern cordilleras of the Bolivian Andes in South America....

. The town is at the centre of Torotoro National Park

Torotoro National Park

Torotoro National Park is a small national park in Bolivia, situated among the eastern mountain ranges of the South American Andes cordilleras.-Geography:...

. It is 140 km south of Cochabamba

Cochabamba

Cochabamba is a city in central Bolivia, located in a valley bearing the same name in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and is the fourth largest city in Bolivia with an urban population of 608,276 and a metropolitan population of more than 1,000,000 people...

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