
Potosí - Wikipedia
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 a nominal 4,090 m (13,420 ft). [3] . For centuries, it was …
City of Potosí - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
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 perched at an altitude of 4,000 m in the icy solitude of the Bolivian Andes, Potosí became an “Imperial City” following the visit of Francisco de Toledo in 1572.
Potosí and its Silver: The Beginnings of Globalization
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 global interconnected trade and finance network did not survive the 17th century.
Potosí: The Mountain Of Silver In South America And Its Historical ...
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 city, one of the highest globally, played a vital role in Spanish colonial history and had a significant economic impact on the region.
A short story about Potosi—the largest South American silver …
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 mines in the Americas.
Mountains of Silver: Tiny Bolivian village of Potosi was once the ...
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 from Potosí, Spain was able to wage war against the English, Dutch, French and Ottoman Turks.
Potosí Silver Mines - Atlas Obscura
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 local market for...
History 101: how silver turned Potosí into ‘the first city of ...
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 or Seville. But then the silver ran out …
Potosí: the mountain of silver that was the first global city - Aeon
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 as ore trucks rumble into town, hauling zinc and lead ores for export to Asia.
Potosí: The Silver City That Changed the World - MIT Press
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 Empire in its heyday, and one of the world’s most populous urban settings in the late sixteenth to early seventeenth centuries.
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