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Going down the mines
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 17 October 2009
If the Death Road turned out to be nowhere near as scary as I’d been expecting, my next big excursion turned out to far more. Potosi was once the biggest and richest city in the whole of the Americas – and at one point even bigger than Madrid, the imperial capital, and all because of one [...]
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Bolivian Sojourn: Potosi, By the Numbers
Blog: AlpacaSuitcase - 7 September 2009
The story of the town of Potosi and its Cerro Rico ("Rich Hill"), the mountain of silver that bankrolled the Spanish Empire for two-and-a-half centuries, is one that can be told with numbers:13,420 = The elevation (in feet) of Potosi, the highest city in the world, almost two and a half miles high.
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