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A silver city built above four thousand metres in the Bolivian Andes beneath the Cerro Rico, whose ore was registered in 1545 and which became the largest single source of silver in the…
-19.6, -65.8 · approximate · 1545 – present; peak production late 16th and 17th centuries
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- A place in: Age of Exploration · 8 places
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- supplies Silver — The Cerro Rico was the single largest source of silver in the early modern world from the mid-sixteenth century.
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