the amazing sunset

Potosi, Bolivia

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October 16th 2010
Potosi is famost for two things, it is the highest located city in the world (if we thing about cities over 100.000 inhibitants) and for its mines which made it hundreds years ago to one of the richest cities in South America and brought many Europeans to build this nice, colonial city around the silver hill. Today, the people still live from remaining reserves of minerals in the hill (more than 1 ... read more

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Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away from Spanish rule in 1825; much of its subsequent history has consisted of a series of nearly 200 coups and counter-coups. Comparatively democratic civilian rule was established in 1... ... read more