World● Low48m ago · Nov 10, 2026, 10:11 PM
The ghost town of Potosí that once had more than 4,000 inhabitants and today only preserves its ruins: an ancient mining city marked by abandonment
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The ancient settlement gathered thousands of people around the extraction and processing of various minerals. Today, its constructions remain abandoned among mountains, while some structures allow reconstructing what life was like there.
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