Potosí, known as Villa Imperial de Potosí in the colonial period, is the capital city and a municipality of the Department of Potosí in Bolivia. It is one of the highest cities in the world at …

Potosí is the example par excellence of a major silvers mine of the modern era, reputed to be the world’s largest industrial complex in the 16th century. A small pre-Hispanic-period hamlet …

Dec 13, 2020 · The Potosi “piece of eight” was the world’s first global currency crossing frontiers and financing trade and wars. The End of the Potosi Era. But the great Potosi silver facilitated …

Nov 1, 2024 · Potosí, called the “Mountain of Silver,” is a historic city in Bolivia. It features Cerro Rico, one of South America’s largest silver deposits, where over 45,000 tons were mined. This …

Aug 22, 2022 · Among the Library of Congress collections about the Andean region are that of Potosí, the largest of the South American silver mines, and easily one of the most famous …

Mar 8, 2015 · Silver from Potosí made Spain’s monarchs the wealthiest and most powerful rulers in Europe. It allowed them to fund their armies, and pursue military expansion. With the silver …

Feb 13, 2011 · Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god. Tourists at the mine light a stick of dynamite, available from the …

Mar 25, 2016 · The discovery of a mountain of silver (and a new way to extract it) transformed this remote Incan hamlet into the economic centre of Spain’s empire – larger than London, Milan …

Jul 30, 2019 · A regional capital in the heart of the Bolivian Andes, Potosí remains – more than three and a half centuries later – a mining city today. Its baroque church towers stand watch …

Jun 1, 2020 · The great mining city of Potosí, in the highlands of what is today southern Bolivia, was the foremost source of silver in the early modern world, the crown jewel of the Spanish …