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  2. Cave of Swallows - Wikipedia

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    Top of Golondrinas as viewed from the low side, during a descent made in 1979 A caver rappels the drop from the cave's mouth. Cross section of the cave. The Cave of Swallows, also called the Cave of the Swallows (Spanish: Sótano de las Golondrinas), is an open-air pit cave in the municipality of Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

  3. Potosí - Wikipedia

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    Potosi; Tinku – A local combat ritual and agricultural fertility rite; El Tio; Mapuche silver finery; Cervecería Potosina, one of few Bolivian breweries; The Devil's Miner, 2005 documentary film follows a fourteen-year-old boy, who along with his twelve-year-old brother work in the mines near Potosí. Great Potosi Mint Fraud of 1649

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  5. El Potosí National Park - Wikipedia

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    The predominant plant community is pine–oak forest. [2]285 species of wild plants, classed in 207 genera and 84 families, are found in the park. Characteristic tree species include oaks (Quercus resinosa, Quercus potosina, and Quercus laeta), pines (Pinus pseudostrobus and Pinus teocote), madroño (Arbutus xalapensis, lantrisco (Rhus virens), bodero (Dodonaea viscosa), and laurel (Litsea ...

  6. Tinku - Wikipedia

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    Platt, Tristan. Simon Bolivar, the Sun of Justice and the Amerindian Virgin: Andean Conceptions of the Patria in Nineteenth-Century Potosi. In: Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1. (Feb., 1993), pp. 159–185. Sikkink, Lynn. Water and Exchange: The Ritual of "yaku cambio" as Communal and Competitive Encounter.

  7. Category:Tourist attractions in San Luis Potosí - Wikipedia

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  8. Cathedral Basilica of Potosí - Wikipedia

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    Commonly called the la Matriz. Originally it would have begun in 1564, according to the plan of the master Juan Miguel de la Veramendi, who could not continue the work because he died, so it was necessary, that the request of the mitred of La Plata, from Lima In 1568, the economic income that supports the work is officially authorized.

  9. Museo Nacional de la Máscara - Wikipedia

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    View of the interior patio. The building is a former mansion, located alongside the Plaza del Carmen in the historic center of San Luis Potosí. [1] In the 1890s, Ramón Martí purchased five adjoining homes and demolished them to build his residence in Neo Classical style, designed by engineer Enrique Campos.