Potos

19°34S 65°45W, pop (2000e) 136 400. Capital of Potosí department, SW Bolivia; altitude 4070 m/13 353 ft; highest city of its size in the world; founded by Spanish in 1545; major silver-mining town in 17th–18th-c, becoming the most important city in South America at the time; airfield; railway; university (1892); tin, silver, copper, lead; chief industrial centre of Bolivia; Convent of Santa Teresa (art collection); Las Cajas Reales (Cabildo and Royal Treasury); cathedral; mint (Casa Real de Moneda), founded 1572, rebuilt 1759, now a museum; thermal baths at the Laguna de Tarapaya; city is a world heritage site.

Potosí or Potosi may refer to:

Bolivia Potosí, a city, an important mining spot during the Spanish conquest. Potosí Department, a department Huayna Potosí, a mountain Jamaica Potosi, Trelawny, Jamaica Mexico San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, a city San Luis Potosí, a state Cerro Potosí, a mountain Nicaragua Potosí, Rivas, a municipality United States Potosi, Missouri Potosi, Nevada Potosi, Texas Potosi, Wisconsin Potosi (town), Wisconsin

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