Bolivia .com reports: Surely many of these data are unknown to you and today are presented. With a population of about 10.5 million inhabitants and its large area, Bolivia is one of the countries in Latin America with the lowest population density. But before telling you all the details, Bolivia.com decided to show 11 curiosities…
Tag: national heritage
The Bolivian mountain that eats miners
The Rich Mountain of Potosi (Cerro Rico) has been an enormous source of wealth. An old say, worldwide: “It is worth a Potosi” (Vale un Potosi) summarizes its world class! Potosi was larger than New York, had electricity before Paris … and yet … we rad below the sad, real life that those miners had…
Tens of thousands attend traditional Carnival in Bolivia’s Oruro
Reuters reports [to watch the video, please use the link below]: Tens of thousands attend traditional Carnival in Bolivia’s Oruro Music and dancing filled the streets of the traditional mining town of Oruro, Bolivia on Saturday (February 25) to celebrate Carnival, which is dedicated to the patron saint Virgin of Socavon, whose 45-metre (150-foot) tall statue…
History 101: how silver turned Potosí into ‘the first city of capitalism’
A great article regarding Potosi, by The Guardian: Story of cities #6: how silver turned Potosí into ‘the first city of capitalism’ The discovery of a mountain of silver (and a new way to extract it) transformed this remote Incan hamlet into the economic centre of Spain’s empire – larger than London, Milan or Seville….
History 101: Potosi and the coins
Juan Jose Toro writes in El Deber: Potosi and the coins Potosi is known to habe been one of the most important cities of the Colony with its Cerro Rico [rich mountain]. True but insufficient. To understand what was Potosi, would have to say it was, in its time, the sum of London and New…
We are loosing our CERRO RICO, and the world knows about this disgrace!
I am sad and upset, despite the fact that it is our NATIONAL EMBLEM, not only is central part of our our Code of Arms but also belongs in our History, ever since the Colony to date. The Cerro Rico, is systematically been destroyed. And now it is part of the infamous, yet credible tag…
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