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Potosí (Cerro Rico)

Silver mountain above the high-altitude city of Potosí, Bolivia. From its discovery it produced most of the silver of the central Andes and made the city one of the largest in the New World.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1545 CE mainstream
  silver of Cerro Rico discovered; Potosí founded source
• 1987 CE mainstream
  City of Potosí inscribed by UNESCO source

Where

19.5900° S, 65.7500° W

Sources

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/10/bolivia-cerro-rico-mountain-sink-city-potosi
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerro_Rico
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potos%C3%AD

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