City of Potosí

By the sixteenth century, the city of Potosi was considered the largest industrial complex in the world. Silver was extracted with a fairly advanced mine within a couple of miles from downtown. Now the site has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1987, the area includes industrial monuments of the Cerro Rico, where silver was mined, which then led to Spain to finance wars and life the crown, the colonial city, the church of San Lorenzo, and some houses that remain from this period, of which the mitayo Quarter, where the workers lived. It is very impressive to visit the mines in Potosi because here you will see people still working as they did four centuries ago, working with little security, very difficult conditions and extremely high stress.

Potosi is a city that you can not stay at without getting to know. If you hang out for a walk in Bolivia, the most common thing is to get there after touring the Salar de Uyuni, which is next to the border with Chile, and there is a majestic corner, however there are many options to get to this lovely city. This Bolivian city became one of the world's richest city due to its hill "Cerro Rico" which is full of minerals like gold and silver through the years and to date is still being exploited as a source of employment for many natives. The architecture is also one of the great things, you can find

Simon Bolivar – for whom Bolivia is named and its first president – called Potosi the treasury of the Spanish Empire because of the pounds and pounds of silver hacked and axed from Cerro Rico and other neighboring hills. Potosi bloomed, beautiful and extravagant as countless enslaved Africans and Quechua and Aymara laborers lost their lives toiling within the hot, hellish earth. From the early 19th century, the silver deposits began to dwindle as tin became the more lucrative metal. And in South America today, Bolivia remains the poorest country, Potosi in one of its poorest regions – most of its resources plundered by strangers' hands.