Dynamite and Cyanide in the World's Highest City - Potosi
July 9th 2011 There are a few towns and certainly a few villages found higher in the world, but they are all small. Potosi is the worlds highest city, with a population of 163,000 at a brain melting altitude of 4000m. Alongside it’s epic height, it is well known for its crippling mine system, which reaches throughout Cerro Rico a mountain looming over the city at 4824m.
Potosi was founded by the Spanish
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