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  • Market stall outside the mines of Cerro Rico, Potosi, Bolivia. Potosi is one of the highest cities in the world at 4,090 metres (13,420 ft), the remote mountain behind it was a massive silver mine, discovered in 1545 and at it's peak an estimated 85% of the silver produced in the central Andes came from Cerro Rico. As a result of mining the city of Potosí became one of the largest cities in the New World.
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  • Detail from the Pre-Inca civilisation walls of Tiwanaku. Tiwanaku ruins outside of La Paz, Bolivia sits on the Altiplano, at an altitude of 3,850 m / 12,631 ft. One of the oldest and highest cities ever built. Active between 400 A.D. and 900 A.D this was largely an agrarian society with great skills for stone carving and irrigation technology.
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  • Tiwanaku ruins outside of La Paz, Bolivia sits on the Altiplano, at an altitude of 3,850 m / 12,631 ft. One of the oldest and highest cities ever built. Active between 400 A.D. and 900 A.D this was largely an agrarian society with great skills for stone carving and irrigation technology. The Kalasasaya, open aired temple, was thought to have been an observatory.
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  • Ayamara style. This traditionally dressed (and of course bowler hatted) Ayamaran lady was in the town of Copacabana by Lake Titicaca 3,841 m (12,602 ft). The history of the bowler hat is mixed , but some say it was simply a shipment of hats or English workers that were too small, were given to the locals who adopted it as a part of traditional dress.
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  • Trumpeter in a procession in La Paz
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  • The Basilica of Our Lady of Copacabana is a 16th-century Spanish colonial shrine that houses the image of the Virgen de Copacabana
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  • Potosí, one of the worlds highest cities at 4,090 metres (13,420 ft). A Spanish colonial mining city of huge wealth founded in 1545 - at one point around 60% of the world's silver came from the "Cerro Rio" (rich mountain) sitting behind the town, a lot of this going to produce the legendary "pieces of eight" or Spanish dollar. The mine is still active with a large number of local artisanal miners.
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  • Partially finished traditional Bolivian cloth
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  • Backstrap loom weaving of traditional cloth in the colonial Bolivian city of Sucre, near two of the country’s best-known communities of Quechua weavers: Tarabuco and Jalq’a
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  • In the heart of La Paz, a museum to the medicinal Coca leaf
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  • Tiwanaku ruins outside of La Paz, Bolivia sits on the Altiplano, at an altitude of 3,850 m / 12,631 ft. One of the oldest and highest cities ever built. Active between 400 A.D. and 900 A.D this was largely an agrarian society with great skills for stone carving and irrigation technology. This statue in the Kalasasaya, open aired temple, thought to have been an observatory.
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