City in Bolivia

Usage examples of potosi.

On the success side of the ledger is the fact that Monterrey, San Luis Potosi and Guadalajara have all fallen to these Mexican forces from the north and west.

Certain parts of Potosi, including the sky above it, were going to be crawling with Patth, and that was just the way it was.

Mintarius course and recalculate a vector to take us to Potosi instead.

InterSpiral-class spaceports on the Potosi surface, the largest and most modern of which was heavily dominated by the Patth mercantile fleet.

Utheno, on the grounds that having a legitimate exit record from Potosi would make it easier to get in and out of another Najiki Archipelago world.

Though that could equally be the Potosi customs report catching up with us.

I did when we reached Potosi was to call Ryland to get the location of a dealer I could buy borandis from.

A hundred years before the Spanish arrived, the Incas had discovered rich deposits in the mountains at Potosi but had stopped extracting them when the mountain rumbled at them in a voice that told them that this place was not theirs.

They had hit the big time: Potosi was the largest silver reserve in the world, and it was right there for the Spanish picking.

Everyone at Potosi got rich fast: from the time of Columbus to 1550, 70 tons of silver poured out of the mine each year.

German explorer von Humboldt estimated that Potosi produced over one hundred and twenty-seven million pesos in its first eleven years.

By 1577 there were two thousand Spaniards in the city, overseeing the work of over twenty thousand Indian miners, and by the early seventeenth century Potosi would be the largest city in the Americas - and quite possibly the richest city in the world.

By the start of the eighteenth century the French were in on the act, too, sending galleons of luxury European goods to the New World to exchange for the famous Potosi silver.

Coca was taken to the mines of Potosi for sale, and the planting of the leaves and picking of the leaves was carried on to such an extent that coca is not now worth so much, but it will never cease to be valuable.

One source says that, at Potosi, mining and silver refining with mercury was to kill 10,000 Indians every year from 1560 to 1620.