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The city of San Luis Potosí in Mexico was named after Potosí in Bolivia. In the United States, the name Potosi was optimistically given to lead-mining towns of Potosi, Wisconsin, [36] and Potosi, Missouri, and also to the silver-mining town of Potosi, Nevada.
Potosí (Spanish pronunciation:; Quechua: P'utuqsi; Aymara: Putusi) is a department in southwestern Bolivia. Its area is 118,218 km 2 and its population is 856,419 (2024 census). The capital is the city of Potosí.
The history of boundary conflicts between Oruro and Potosí dates back as far as the early colonial period. When the Spanish arrived in the Americas, they never took into account the territorial spaces of the various indigenous and native peoples who already lived in the area, such as the ayllus, markas, and suyus of Quechua and Aymara speaker in the region.
Potosí Department (Spanish: Departamento de Potosí) was a department of Bolivia, a constituent country of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation, which existed from 1836 to 1839. [1] Created alongside the confederate state, its capital was Potosí.
Laguna Verde (Spanish for "green lake") [1] is a salt lake in an endorheic basin, in the southwestern Altiplano in Bolivia. It is located in the Sur Lípez Province of the Potosí Department. It is close to the Chilean border, at the foot of the volcano Licancabur. Laguna Verde seen from Licancabur View from the shore
A province is the second largest administrative division in Bolivia, after a department. Each department is divided into provinces. There are 112 provinces. The country's provinces are further divided into 337 municipalities which are administered by an alcalde and municipal council.
Kari-Kari is a Miocene caldera in the Potosi department, Bolivia.It is part of the El Fraile ignimbrite field of the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes.Volcanic activity in the Central Volcanic Zone has generated 44 volcanic centres with postglacial activity and a number of calderas, including the Altiplano-Puna volcanic complex.
Potosí Municipality is the capital municipality of the Tomás Frías Province in the Potosí Department in Bolivia. Its seat is Potos ...