Cerro Rico

Potosí Department · Bolivia

Cerro Rico, Bolivia
Photo: Mhwater at Dutch Wikipedia, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
May to October
Budget
$
Coordinates
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The silver-laden mountain looming over Potosí, whose colonial mines financed the Spanish empire. Cooperative miners still work its warren of shafts under harsh conditions.

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