TURNING POINTS · 1545
Cerro Rico, Potosí, Bolivia
Silver from Cerro Rico flowed to Spain for centuries. The mines depended on the mita, a system of forced Indigenous labour. The target is the Cerro Rico.
The story, as a puzzle
The mountain of silver.
From 1545, a single mountain of silver made the Andean city at its foot one of the largest and richest in the world, at a terrible cost to the forced labourers in its mines. Pin the mountain.
Where it is
Think you'd have found it on the map?
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