Place:Potosí, Bolivia

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Name	Potosí
Alt names	Potosi	source: Times Atlas of the World (1994) p 157
	Potosí	source: Family History Library Catalog
	Potosí	source: Getty Vocabulary Program
	Potosí department	source: Getty Vocabulary Program
Type	Department
Coordinates	20.667°S 67°W
Located in	Bolivia

source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

source: Family History Library Catalog

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Potosí (; Aymara: Putusi; ) is a department in southwestern Bolivia. It comprises 118,218 km² with 823,517 inhabitants (2012 census). The capital is the city of Potosí. It is mostly a barren, mountainous region with one large plateau to the west, where the largest salt flat in the world, Salar de Uyuni, is located.

Cerro Potosí was the richest province in the Spanish empire, providing a great percentage of the silver that was shipped to Europe.

Potosi is also the location of the San Cristóbal silver, zinc and lead mines, developed by the US-company Apex Silver Mines Limited of Colorado and in November 2008 sold to the Japanese Sumitomo Corporation.

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