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BOLIVIA. Potosi. 1957.
Potosi is a city in the middle of the Andes which was the most important silver mining town in the Spanish colony. A whole hill of silver was found here, and a baroque city grew at its feet. Now silver is exhausted, but the hill is still exploited of its tin.

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