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Potosí in present-day Bolivia and Cerro de Pasco in Peru were one of the principal mines of the Spanish Empire in the New World.
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Potosí and present-day
The growth of mining in Potosí in present-day Bolivia, which became the largest city in the Americas in the 17th century, created a constant demand for wine which was supplied mainly from Peru.
Potosí and Bolivia
* Potosí, in modern day Bolivia, is founded by the Spanish as a mining town.
* The discovery of silver at Zacatecas and Guanajuato in Mexico, and Potosí in Bolivia, stimulates silver rushes ( approximate date ).
Following the Spanish discovery of great silver deposits at Potosí in Bolivia and in Mexico during the 16th century, international trade came to depend on coins such as the Spanish dollar, Maria Theresa thaler, and, in the 1870s, the United States Trade dollar.
* Silver is discovered at Potosí, Bolivia.
Potosí ( Bolivia ) silver 8 reales, Carlos III, 1768
Moses named the town after Potosí in Bolivia, which was famous for its vast silver mines.
Potosí ( Bolivia ) silver 8 reales, Carlos III, 1768
However, in 1551, Aguirre returned to Potosí ( then still part of Peru and now part of Bolivia ).
It is located in the Potosí and Oruro departments in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes, and is at an elevation of above mean sea level.
Potosí was added in reference to the fabulously rich mines of Potosí, Bolivia, discovered some forty years before the city was founded, as the exploitation of silver and gold mines in Cerro de San Pedro near San Luis was the main reason for the founding of the city in 1592.
* Potosí, Bolivia
Since the 16th century the exploration of the Brazilian inland was attempted several times, mostly to try to find mineral riches like the silver mines found in 1546 by the Spanish in Potosí ( now in Bolivia ).
The silver from mines at Potosí, Bolivia circulated around the world.
When revolution broke out in Buenos Aires on May 25, 1810, Abascal reoccupied the provinces of Córdoba, Potosí, La Paz and Charcas ( in Alto Perú, now Bolivia ) and reincorporated them into the Viceroyalty of Peru.
For a long time due to the Incan silver mines, Potosí was the most important site in Colonial Spanish America, located in the current department of Potosí in Bolivia and it was the location of the Spanish colonial mint.
They found other precious metals such as silver, which was particularly abundant in Potosí, in modern-day Bolivia.
Most dry lakes are small, however Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, near Potosí, the largest salt flat in the world is of 4, 085 square miles ( 10, 582 square km ).
* José María Linares Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia
The settlement initially developed as a strategic site on the mule trade route between San Miguel de Tucumán and the silver mines in Potosí, Bolivia.
For instance, life expectancy for silver miners in Potosí, Bolivia is around 40 years due to silicosis.
Potosí Department is a department in southwestern Bolivia.
During the Viceroyship, Puno was the obliged route for travelers going to Potosí, Bolivia.
Potosí and Cerro
* Cerro Potosí, a mountain
There is also a small isolated population on the peak of Cerro Potosí, elevation 3, 700 metres ( 12, 200 ft ), in Nuevo León, northeast Mexico.
The isolated Cerro Potosí population is strongly associated with the local endemic Potosi Pinyon Pinus culminicola.
* Cerro de San Pedro, San Luis Potosí
Potosí with Cerro Rico
The range is highly localised, confined to a small area of high summits in the northern Sierra Madre Oriental in Coahuila and Nuevo León, and only abundant on the highest peak, Cerro Potosí ( 3713 m ).
Cerro El Potosí is the highest mountain in the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range of northeast Mexico.
* Cerro Potosí on Windows Live Local
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no: Cerro del Potosí
* Cerro Potosí
Probably the best known attraction is the Cerro del Potosí ( Potosi's Mount ), the highest mountain in the whole state, which rises over 3, 600 meters above sea level.
# redirect Cerro Potosí
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Río de la Plata and Argentina derive their names from the silver of Potosí.
He is the only canonised king of France ; consequently, there are many places named after him, most notably St. Louis, Missouri and Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in the United States, São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil and both the state and city of San Luis Potosí in Mexico.
The cities of San Luis Potosí in Mexico ; St. Louis, Missouri ; St. Louis, Michigan ; San Luis, Arizona ; San Luis, Colorado ; Saint-Louis du Sénégal ; Saint-Louis in Alsace ; as well as Lake Saint-Louis in Quebec, the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in California and rue Saint Louis of Pondicherry are among the many places named after the king and saint.
The Mexican made use of Real de Catorce, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, as a film location, as well as various areas in Las Vegas, Nevada and Los Angeles, California.
As he was training for a rematch with Laporte set for September, he crashed on the early morning of August 12, 1982, while driving his Porsche 928 sports car along the federal highway from Santiago de Querétaro to San Luis Potosí, dying instantly.
On October 5, 1910, Madero issued a " letter from jail " called the Plan de San Luis Potosí, with its main slogan Sufragio Efectivo, No re-elección (" free suffrage and no re-election ").
* Plan de San Luis Potosí
The legal foundation of the town of San Luis Potosí was made in November 3, 1592, according to a charter commission raised by Viceroy Luis de Velasco and given to Miguel Caldera ( considered the historic founder of the city ) and Juan de Oñate.
The Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí ( UASLP ) is in the city.
* Universidad Politécnica de San Luis Potosí ( UPSLP )
* Universidad Tecnológica de San Luis Potosí
* San Luis Potosí Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México
de: San Luis Potosí ( Stadt )
He founded a number of colleges, among them those of Arequipa, Potosí, Chuquisaca, Panama and La Paz, but met with considerable opposition from the viceroy, Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa.
Upper Peru () was the region in the Viceroyalty of Peru, and after 1776, the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, comprising the governorships of Potosí, La Paz, Cochabamba, Chiquitos, Moxos and Charcas ( since renamed Sucre ).
Francisco de Toledo also ended the indigenous state of Vilcabamba, executing the Inca Túpac Amaru, and promoted economic development from the commercial monopoly and the mineral extraction, mainly, from silver mines of Potosí.
Viceroy Diego Ladrón de Guevara increased the production of silver in the mines of Potosí, and stimulated production in other mines at San Nicolás, Cajatambo and Huancavelica.
La Jornada has presence in seven states of the Mexican Republic with local editions in Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, San Luis Potosí, Puebla and Veracruz ( La Jornada de Oriente ).
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