Cerro Rico Potosi

... out, breathe in..) and a UNESCO site. The city was founded in 1545 following the discovery of ore deposits in the Cerro Rico mountain. That mountain continues to be mined today and there are tours (the main tourist attraction), so Donegal Maeve and ...

... The next day we wake at 7am and decide to cancel our trip to the silver mine. In the nearby hill of Cerro Rico are a labyrinth of underground mines which harbour silver and platinum. The mines were responsible for making Potosi (and Boliviar) into ...

... sits t 4100m in a barren windswept plain, and is the highest city in the world. The town is here because of the Cerro Rico (Rich Mountain), the richest source of silver that the world had ever known. The silver rush started in 1545, and the estimated ...

Potosi, Bolivia is the most important city you probably have never heard of. In the colonial days, Potosi was the largest and richest city in the Western Hemisphere, and some say in the world - it had a larger population than Paris, London, ...

... - they dump it in the river".  Spicy informed me.  (Another reason to always drink bottled water in Bolivia) The mining operations are run as a co-op, so the miners split all the profits from the extracted silver. & ...

... Central at an altitude of 13,500 ft and was once the wealthiest city in Latin America. It sits in the shadow of Cerro Rico (Rich Hill) and owes its existence to the fabulously rich veins of silver that permeate the mountain. Although the presence of the ...

... into our finest mining gear of rubber boots, rain suits, helmets and a head-lamp, we took a collectivo (public micro-bus) to Cerro Rico.  Julio has a private agreement with one of the mine shafts which is great - we don't see other tourists, he knows ...

... .  The other one is in Peru.  They like extremes in Bolivia.  Originally Potosi was a small native settlement that mined the nearby Cerro Rico for silver.  Then the Spanish arrived.  It's hard to travel in South America and ...

I'm in Potosi, Bolivia ... The Highest City in the World at 13,430 feet (4070 m). The history of Potosi is quite amazing despite the difficult living conditions like the cold and lack of oxygen associated with this altitude. Potosi was once THE largest ...

... after we left Osorno, we arrive in Potosi. It's an old silver mining city in a fine location, with the stunning pink Cerro Rico mountain towering above it. At an incredible 4070 metres above sea level, Potosi also happens to be the highest city in the ...

... the same time so we all backed away from him and let him get on with it. So eventually we got to the top of Cerro Rico (which means Rich Hill) so named because when the Spanish were in town they relentlessly mined the hill for silver which made the ...

... off with the religious art section. I only liked two paintings, one of a springlike scene and the other one was the Virgin of Cerro Rico. We then moved on to the coins where we saw samples of the coins of the Spanish empire that were minted in Potosě due ...

... all the Franciscan churches were built to the same design. I joined the tour at the mirador. It was a truly fantastic view of Cerro Rico and the city. I could have sat up there for ages. It is very interesting how the miradors are just areas on the ...

... . In the 1500s, it was founded as a mining town after discovery of vast veins of silver in the nearby mountain, Cerro Rico. The spanish forced not only the local indigenous population but also brought in african slaves to mine the mountain. At it´s peak ...

... no getting away from it when you´re labouring up the streets while freezing at nights...in the middle of summer. Cerro Rico is the hill which has made Potosi the city that it is, as it was here that silver ore was first discovered in 1545. The veins ...

... ville drainent beaucoup d eau et en marchant vers l hotel, il faut traverser a guee les rues... Potosi est connu pour ces mines et son "Cerro Rico" (colline riche) qui est exploite depuis 4 siecles. Les espagnols, durant deus siecles d exploitations, ...

... world and in the 17th century was bigger than Madrid and most other European cities. The reason for this was the silver mines of Cerro Rico (rich mountain) which at one time accounted for half the world's silver. We took a tour of them on our second day ...

I survived! It was brilliant, was on a complete natural high for hours after finishing the tour, un experience fantastico! - I am really glad Al persuaded me to go, and I have already had the "I told you so" WE were collected just after 9 by a Greengo ...

... , to Potosi, supposedly the highest city in the world at over 12,000 feet.  It was founded at the base of the mountain Cerro Rico right after silver was discovered there in 1524 by a shepherd.  Turns out it was an incredibly rich mine, and ...

... to Paris, London and Seville.   Nowadays the city has lost much of it´s wealth, but nonetheless the mines of Cerro Rico (Rich Mountain) continue to provide much of the employment for the male population of the city and every miner is hopeful of ...