Potosi

Potosi is a capital town and a municipality of the department of Potosí in Bolivia. it's miles one of the maximum towns within the world at a nominal four,090 metres. for centuries, it became the place of the Spanish colonial mint. Potosi lies on the foot of the Cerro de Potosi occasionally referred to as the Cerro Rico a mountain popularly conceived of as being "manufactured from" silver ore that dominates the town. The Cerro Rico is the motive for Potosí's ancient importance because it was the fundamental supply of silver for Spanish Empire till Guanajuato in Mexico handed it in the 18th century.

The silver changed into taken through llama and mule teach to the Pacific coast, shipped north to Panama town, and carried by mule teach throughout the isthmus of Panama to Nombre de Dios or Portobelo, whence it changed into taken to Spain on the Spanish treasure fleets. some of the silver also made its manner east to Buenos Aires, via the Rio de la Plata. Cerro de Potosí's peak is 4,824 metres above sea stage.