The highest city in the world
July 11th 2006 I spent a day in the city of Potosí in Bolivia, the highest city in the world at nearly 4000 metres. It's famous for the Cerro Rico, a mountain that contains one of the bigest sources of silver ore in the world. It was initially founded in 1546 as a mining town and soon became the second biggest city in the Americas and also one of the richest cities in the world, with widespread exploitation o
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