Arc Skylover·Aug 20The Mountain That Ate Men: The Story of Potosí and the Birth of Global CapitalismHigh in the icy, windswept peaks of the Bolivian Andes, standing over 13,000 feet above sea level, lies Cerro Rico — the “Rich Mountain.”…
InMy Fair LighthousebyPablo Pereyra·May 27Silver Mountain17th Century journey to Potosí — A Pier 21 Prompt responseA response icon16
Malina·Jun 1, 2024The Silver Treasure of PotosíIn the 1500’s, a small town in present-day Bolivia lay treasure to a mountain that was filled with the world’s richest deposits of silver…
Flavia Huarachi·Nov 28, 2021Andean Diaries VIII: The city of Silver, Coinmaking and looking for the female deity — PotosíIn this blog we travelled back in time, back to the history of the colony, and a reminder of what we still are recuperating from.
