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Potosi, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 711
Housing Units (2000): 320
Land area (2000): 1.645355 sq. miles (4.261451 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.009226 sq. miles (0.023894 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.654581 sq. miles (4.285345 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64625
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 42.681540 N, 90.720247 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 53820
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Potosi, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 2662
Housing Units (2000): 1211
Land area (2000): 2.184009 sq. miles (5.656558 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.184009 sq. miles (5.656558 sq. km)
FIPS code: 59330
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 37.937881 N, 90.781932 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 63664
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Potosi, TX -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Texas
Population (2000): 1664
Housing Units (2000): 624
Land area (2000): 18.463150 sq. miles (47.819338 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.002987 sq. miles (0.007736 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 18.466137 sq. miles (47.827074 sq. km)
FIPS code: 59108
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.335615 N, 99.665777 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Potosi

Potosí or Potosi may refer to:

Potosí

Potosí is a city and the capital of the department of Potosí in Bolivia. It is one of the highest cities in the world by elevation at a nominal For centuries, it was the location of the Spanish colonial mint.

Potosí lies at the foot of the Cerro de Potosí—sometimes referred to as the Cerro Rico ("rich mountain", a mountain popularly conceived of as being "made of" silver ore that dominates the city. The Cerro Rico is the reason for Potosí's historical importance, since it was the major supply of silver for Spain during the period of the New World Spanish Empire.

The silver was taken by llama and mule train to the Pacific coast, shipped north to Panama City, carried by mule train across the isthmus of Panama to Nombre de Dios or Portobelo whence it was taken to Spain on the Spanish treasure fleets.

Cerro de Potosí's peak is above sea level.

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.